The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 106
He shook his mane with rage and fury; the enemy in front did exactly the same.
Who acts: dragon, enemy · What happens: shake, do · To what, where: mane
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, enemy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mane | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fury | cc |
| 8 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rage | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 enemy | det |
| 11 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enemy | nmod |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 17 same | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 did | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | dragon | dragon's mane | with rage and fury | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mane=Patient with rage=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | the enemy in front | same property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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