The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 52
Early next day the young man started for the castle, feeling sure that some terrible thing must have happened to his brother.
Who acts: young man, terrible thing · What happens: start, feel, happen
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 (young man, terrible thing), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 started | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 started | conj |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feeling | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 happened | mark |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 feeling | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the young man | day | for the castle; early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | the young man not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | must · perfect | some terrible thing | to man's brother | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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