The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 115
The first wet day after their marriage the bridegroom begged the bride to show him all the rooms in the palace, and it was so big and took so long that the sun was shining brightly again before they stepped on to the roof to see the view.
Who acts: bridegroom, palace, sun, balls · What happens: beg, show, be, take, shine, step on · To what, where: bride, rooms, bridegroom, palace, roof, view
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 (bridegroom, palace, sun, balls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridegroom | det |
| 9 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 rooms | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rooms | det |
| 18 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rooms | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 big | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 big | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 big | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 big | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 big | advmod |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 begged | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 begged | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 took | advmod |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 shining | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shining | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 shining | aux |
| 36 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 took | advcl |
| 37 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 38 again | advmod |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 shining | advmod |
| 39 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 stepped | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stepped | nsubj |
| 41 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 stepped | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 roof | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 roof | det |
| 45 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stepped | obl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 see | mark |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 stepped | advcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 view | det |
| 49 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 see | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the bridegroom | the bride | day | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the bridegroom not said here | all rooms | bridegroom | the palace | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | past | palace | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the bridegroom not said here | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | again | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | step on | past | balls = ball | the roof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | balls = ball not said here | the view | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | marry | balls = ball | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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