The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 55
“A short time ago!” wailed the voices.
What happens: wail · To what, where: voices
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: 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 | _ | 8 wailed | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 wailed | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ago | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ago | punct |
| 8 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voices | det |
| 10 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wailed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wail | past | the voices | ago property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent voice=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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