The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 84
So, one fine morning, the two brothers left the hut, and walked together to the place where the great road divided.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: leave, walk, divide · To what, where: hut, great road
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 (two brothers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nummod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 divided | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 road | amod |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the two brothers | the hut | morning | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the two brothers not said here | to the place result; together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | ||||
| 3 | divide | participle · passive | the great road | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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