The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 8
The stag stooped and picked up the snake, which bit him, and he turned angrily to the puma.
Who acts: snake, stag · What happens: stoop, pick up, bite, turn · To what, where: stag, snake, 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 (snake, stag), 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 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stag | acl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 picked | cc |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stooped | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bit | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bit | nsubj |
| 11 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bit | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 puma | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 puma | det |
| 20 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | participle | the stag not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the snake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bite | past | the snake | stag | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | the stag | the puma | angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to puma=Trajectory |
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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