The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 54
“Lady of all the ages,” cried the new comer, “did you not give hospitality to a young knight but a short time ago?”
Who acts: Lady, you · What happens: cry, not give · To what, where: new comer, hospitality, young knight · 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 (Lady, you), 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 | _ | 2 Lady | punct |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ages | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ages | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ages | det |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lady | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lady | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lady | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 comer | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comer | amod |
| 12 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 give | advmod |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 19 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 knight | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 knight | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 knight | amod |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 time | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knight | conj |
| 28 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 27 time | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Lady of all ages | the new comer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | past · do-support | you | hospitality | a young knight but a short time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme to knight=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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