The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 62
The shepherd stooped and saw the blood, and cried out: “Ah! so it is you, is it? then take that!” and with his stick he gave the puma such a blow on the head that he died then and there.
Who acts: shepherd, blood, you, puma · What happens: stoop, see, cry out, be, take, give · To what, where: blood, you, sheep, that, puma, 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 (shepherd, blood, you, 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 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blood | det |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 14 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 19 you | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 you | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 you | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 you | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 it | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 it | cop |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 you | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 take | advmod |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stooped | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gave | cc |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 stick | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 stick | nmod:poss |
| 32 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gave | nsubj |
| 34 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 puma | det |
| 36 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obj |
| 37 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 blow | det:predet |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 blow | det |
| 39 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 head | det |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gave | obl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 died | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 died | nsubj |
| 45 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gave | advcl |
| 46 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 died | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 there | cc |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 then | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | the shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the shepherd not said here | the blood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the shepherd not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | blood | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | you | that | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 7 | give | past | shepherd | the puma | the head | with shepherd's stick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent puma=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset | ||
| 8 | die | past | puma | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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