The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 1
Her husband said nothing, and began to talk of something else; but the next morning he ordered his horse, took his spear, called his bloodhound, and set off for the castle.
Who acts: husband, spear · What happens: say, begin, talk, order, take, call · To what, where: nothing, horse, spear, bloodhound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, spear), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 talk | mark |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 talk | obl |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 something | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 spear | nmod:poss |
| 25 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 spear | acl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bloodhound | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bloodhound | bloodhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 set | cc |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 set | compound:prt |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Her husband | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Her husband not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | Her husband not said here | of something | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | order | past | husband | husband's horse | morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | past | husband's spear | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | |||||
| 6 | call | participle | husband's spear not said here | husband's bloodhound | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bloodhound=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | set off | past | for the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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