The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 97
“They look very good,” observed the puma with a longing glance, “and I am sure you must be hungry, friend stag?
Who acts: bridges, puma, you · What happens: look, observe, be · To what, where: puma · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridges, puma, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 observed | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 puma | det |
| 10 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 observed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 glance | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 glance | det |
| 13 | longing | longing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glance | amod |
| 14 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 puma | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sure | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 puma | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 hungry | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hungry | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hungry | cop |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stag | punct |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stag | compound |
| 27 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hungry | conj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | bridges = bridge | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | the puma | with a longing glance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the puma = puma | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | you | hungry property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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