The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 3
The stag obeyed, but the men were hot and tired, and did not think this a good joke.
Who acts: stag, men · What happens: obey, be, not think · To what, where: this
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 (stag, men), 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 | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hot | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hot | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hot | cop |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obeyed | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tired | cc |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hot | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 think | advmod |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 think | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 joke | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joke | amod |
| 20 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the stag | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the men | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the men not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | the stag not said here | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme joke=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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