The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 47

In a few minutes more they arrived at the field were the men were reaping the maize, and the puma remarked as he had done before: “Friend monkey, if you wish to please these men, just say as you go by: ‘Bad luck to all workers.’

Who acts: bananas, men, puma, you · What happens: arrive, be, reap, remark, do, wish · To what, where: field, men, maize, puma, Friend monkey, 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 (bananas, men, puma, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	obl:unmarked
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 arrived	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 arrived	nsubj
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 men	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reaping	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reaping	aux
15	reaping	reap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 arrived	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maize	det
17	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reaping	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 puma	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 puma	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 puma	det
21	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	parataxis
22	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 puma	acl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 remarked	advcl
27	before	before	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 monkey	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 monkey	punct
30	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 monkey	compound
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 puma	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wish	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 wish	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 wish	nsubj
35	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 monkey	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 please	mark
37	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wish	xcomp
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 men	det
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 please	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
41	just	just	ADV	_	42 say	advmod
42	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 please	conj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 go	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 go	nsubj
45	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 say	ccomp
46	by	by	ADP	_	50 luck	case
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 by	punct
48	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 luck	punct
49	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 luck	amod
50	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 workers	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 workers	det
53	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 go	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 monkey	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 puma	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	bananas = banana		the field		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the men			tree rules
3	reap	past · progressive	the men	the maize			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maize=Theme
4	remark speech: assert	participle		the puma not said here			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past · perfect	puma			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	Friend monkey not said here			tree rules
7	please not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	this men			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go in a quote	present	you		all workers	by Bad luck	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to worker=Initial_Location

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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