The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 2

As they came up to them, the puma whispered: “Go on in front, friend stag, and just say ‘Bad luck to all workers!’”

Who acts: men, puma · What happens: come up, whisper, go, say · To what, where: them, friend stag, front, Bad luck, workers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whispered	advcl
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 puma	det
9	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whispered	nsubj
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
13	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 whispered	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 front	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stag	punct
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stag	compound
19	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 say	advmod
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 Go	conj
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 luck	punct
25	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 luck	amod
26	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 workers	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 workers	det
29	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come up	past	men = man		them = they		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	whisper speech: express	past	the puma				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive		friend stag		front	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on front=Location
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Bad luck	all workers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent luck=Topic to worker=Recipient

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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