The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 32

They soon reached the same river, and, as before, the puma remarked: “Friend monkey, you will find it very shallow; there is no cause for fear.

Who acts: places, puma, you, cause · What happens: reach, remark, find, be · To what, where: same river, monkey · 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 (places, puma, you, cause), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 reached	advmod
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remarked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remarked	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	15 remarked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remarked	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 puma	det
14	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remarked	nsubj
15	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reached	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 monkey	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 monkey	punct
18	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 monkey	compound
19	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 monkey	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 shallow	advmod
26	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 find	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 cause	det
31	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 is	nsubj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 fear	case
33	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cause	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	places = place	the same river		Friend monkey obl; soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	participle	the puma				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find in a quote	future	you	monkey		shallow property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	no cause for fear		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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