The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 13
“Can I rest here this night?
Who acts: man · What happens: rest
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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rest | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rest | nsubj |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rest | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | can | man | here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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