The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 44
The puma was furious and cried out: “I will punch your head for that.”
Who acts: puma · What happens: be, cry out, punch · To what, where: head · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 puma | det |
| 2 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 furious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furious | cop |
| 4 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furious | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cried | compound:prt |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 punch | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 punch | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 punch | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 punch | aux |
| 12 | punch | punch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 punch | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 punch | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 furious | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the puma | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the puma not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | punch in a quote | future | the puma = puma | your head | for that | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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