The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 95
“I am in time, then,” he cried, dismounting very carefully, and placing the mirror against the trunk of a tree.
Who acts: lot · What happens: be, cry, dismount, place · To what, where: mirror, trunk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lot), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dismounting | punct |
| 13 | dismounting | dismount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 carefully | advmod |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 dismounting | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 placing | cc |
| 18 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dismounting | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mirror | det |
| 20 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placing | obj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 trunk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trunk | det |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placing | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trunk | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | lot | in time; then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | lot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dismount | gerund | lot not said here | carefully property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | place | gerund | lot not said here | the mirror | the trunk of a tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme against trunk=Destination |
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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