The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 12
But in the middle of the night the puma rose softly and stole out of the door to the sheep-fold, where he killed and ate the fattest sheep he could find, and taking a bowl full of its blood, he sprinkled the sleeping stag with it.
Who acts: puma · What happens: rise, steal, kill, eat, find, take · To what, where: middle, door, fattest sheep, bowl, sleeping stag
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 (puma), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 rose | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 puma | det |
| 9 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 rose | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stole | cc |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rose | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 fold | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fold | det |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fold | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sheep | punct |
| 22 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 killed | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 killed | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 killed | nsubj |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fold | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ate | cc |
| 28 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 killed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sheep | det |
| 30 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 sheep | amod |
| 31 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ate | obj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 find | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 find | aux |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sheep | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sprinkled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 sprinkled | cc |
| 37 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 sprinkled | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bowl | det |
| 39 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 taking | obj |
| 40 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bowl | amod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 blood | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 blood | nmod:poss |
| 43 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 full | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 taking | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 46 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rose | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 stag | det |
| 48 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 stag | amod |
| 49 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sprinkled | obj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sprinkled | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the puma | the middle of the night | softly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | steal | past | the puma not said here | the door | to the sheep fold | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | past | puma | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | puma not said here | the fattest sheep | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | could | puma | the fattest sheep not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take | gerund | puma not said here | a bowl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sprinkle | past | puma | the sleeping stag | with bowl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent stag=Destination with it=Theme |
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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