The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 49

The men thanked him heartily, let him pass on, and the puma followed behind him.

Who acts: men, puma · What happens: thank, let, pass on, follow · To what, where: puma

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 (men, 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thanked	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 pass	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 followed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 puma	det
14	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 followed	nsubj
15	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	parataxis
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 followed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the men		puma	heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	let	infinitive	the men not said here	puma			tree rules
3	pass on	infinitive	puma not said here				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	follow	past	the puma			behind noise	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=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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