The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 64
Afterwards he returned home and married, and that is the last we heard of him.
Who acts: puma, that, we · What happens: return, marry, be, hear
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, that, we), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 married | cc |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 last | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 last | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 last | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 married | obl |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | puma | afterwards, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | puma not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | we | of puma | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus |
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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