The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 22

I will teach you how to steal!” cried he, and he hit the stag such a blow on his skull that he died in a moment.

Who acts: I, shepherd · What happens: teach, steal, cry, hit, die · To what, where: you, stag, skull · 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 (I, shepherd), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 teach	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 teach	aux
3	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 teach	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 steal	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 steal	mark
7	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	advcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 steal	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 steal	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 teach	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hit	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hit	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 teach	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stag	det
17	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	obj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 blow	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 blow	det
20	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 skull	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 skull	nmod:poss
23	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 died	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hit	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 moment	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	teach speech: other	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	steal	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	shepherd					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hit in a quote	past	shepherd	the stag		shepherd's skull		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent stag=Patient blow=Result
5	die in a quote	past	shepherd				moment	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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