The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 16
Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knight of the Fish had grown so hot that he lifted his visor, and when the old woman saw how handsome he was, she began fumbling with the lock of the gate.
Who acts: Knight, old woman, woman, man · What happens: keep, wait, grow, lift, see, be · To what, where: anger, Knight, visor · 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 (Knight, old woman, woman, 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sun | amod |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 began | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 anger | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 anger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sun | conj |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 kept | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kept | aux:pass |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 anger | acl |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 grown | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waiting | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Knight | det |
| 14 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fish | det |
| 17 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Knight | nmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grown | aux |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kept | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 hot | advmod |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grown | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 lifted | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lifted | nsubj |
| 24 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grown | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 visor | nmod:poss |
| 26 | visor | visor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lifted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 saw | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 saw | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woman | amod |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lifted | conj |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 handsome | advmod |
| 35 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 saw | ccomp |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 handsome | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 handsome | cop |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sun | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 began | nsubj |
| 40 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | fumbling | fumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 began | xcomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 lock | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 lock | det |
| 44 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fumbling | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 gate | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 gate | det |
| 47 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lock | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund · passive | man's anger not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect · passive | the Knight of the Fish | hot property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lift | past | Knight | Knight's visor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visor=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | the old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Knight | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | begin | past | woman | between the fierce sun and man's anger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | fumble | gerund | woman not said here | with the lock of the gate | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | anger | man | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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