The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 111
It was the moment for which the Knight of the Fish had watched and waited, and before the dragon could find out that he was not hurt at all, the young man’s lance was down his throat, and he was rolling, dead, on the grass.
Who acts: mirror, dragon · What happens: be, watch, wait, find out, not hurt, roll · To what, where: moment, Knight, dragon, all, grass
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 (mirror, dragon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 watched | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Knight | det |
| 8 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fish | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fish | det |
| 11 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Knight | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 watched | aux |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 moment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waited | cc |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 watched | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dragon | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waited | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 find | compound:prt |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 hurt | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hurt | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurt | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 hurt | advmod |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 find | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 hurt | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lance | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lance | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 man | case |
| 36 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | conj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 down | cop |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 lance | compound:prt |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 throat | nmod:poss |
| 40 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lance | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rolling | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 rolling | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 rolling | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 rolling | aux |
| 45 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moment | advcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 dead | punct |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 rolling | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 grass | punct |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 grass | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 grass | det |
| 51 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rolling | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | mirror | the moment and the young man's lance and dragon's throat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | past · perfect · passive | the Knight of the Fish | for the moment and the young man's lance and dragon's throat | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | find out | could | before the dragon | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not hurt | past · passive | dragon | all | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | roll | past · progressive | dragon | the grass | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory |
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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