The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 72

From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending.

Who acts: dawn, cobbler · What happens: stand, hook, be, feel, not be, mend · To what, where: few old shoes, banks, anything

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 (dawn, cobbler), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 dark	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dawn	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 banks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 banks	det
9	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stream	amod
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 banks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hooking	punct
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 hooking	mark
16	hooking	hook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stood	advcl
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 hooking	obj
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 hooking	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 eel	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eel	det
21	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 better	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shoes	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 shoes	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shoes	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoes	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shoes	amod
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stood	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clever	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 clever	mark
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 he	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 clever	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clever	punct
33	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	conj
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 was	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 clever	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 felt	punct
38	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 worth	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 worth	advmod
41	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 felt	xcomp
42	mending	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 worth	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	dawn	a few old shoes	the banks of the little stream		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	hook	gerund	dawn not said here	anything		good property	vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme anything=Extent
3	be	past	cobbler				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feel	past	dawn not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not is	past	dawn not said here			worth property	tree rules
6	mend	gerund	dawn not said here				tree rules

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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