The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 58
The woman did not stop to hear more; she turned to fly; but the knight’s sword entered her body.
Who acts: woman, sword · What happens: not stop, hear, turn, fly, enter · To what, where: more, body
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, sword), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 hear | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fly | mark |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turned | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 entered | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 entered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sword | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 knight | case |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past · do-support | the woman | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | more | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | the knight's sword | sword's body | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination |
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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