The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 86

The youth who took the path that ran eastwards arrived presently at a large city, where he found everybody standing at the doors, wringing their hands and weeping bitterly.

Who acts: youth, path · What happens: take, run, arrive, find, stand, wring · To what, where: path, large city, everybody, doors, hands

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 (youth, path), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 youth	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 path	acl:relcl
9	eastwards	eastwards	ADV	_	10 arrived	advmod
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ran	xcomp
11	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 arrived	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 city	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 city	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 city	amod
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 found	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 city	acl:relcl
20	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 found	obj
21	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 everybody	acl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 doors	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doors	det
24	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wringing	punct
26	wringing	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 standing	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wringing	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 weeping	cc
30	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 wringing	conj
31	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	30 weeping	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the youth	the path			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	run	past	the path				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	arrive	participle	the path not said here		a large city	eastwards, presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	path	everybody			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Topic
5	stand	gerund			the doors		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
6	wring	gerund		brothers's hands			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
7	weep	gerund				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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