The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 31
So on she went, now and then calling back to the young man in the darkness.
Who acts: woman · What happens: go, call back · To what, where: young man
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 (woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 now | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 calling | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 calling | advmod |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 calling | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 darkness | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 darkness | det |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | woman | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call back speech: assert | gerund | woman not said here | the young man in the darkness | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
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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