The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 54
Not long after this they reached the comrade’s house, and found him just ready to go to bed.
Who acts: men, puma · What happens: reach, find, go · To what, where: house, puma, bed
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 reached | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 long | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 comrade | det |
| 8 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 comrade | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 ready | advmod |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | men = man | the comrade's house | long property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | men = man not said here | puma | ready property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | puma not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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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