The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 6
“Is there anyone inside?” cried the young man in his loudest voice; “anyone who will give a knight hospitality?
Who acts: young man · What happens: be, give · To what, where: knight hospitality · 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 (young man), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 anyone | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 anyone | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 anyone | punct |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 cried | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 give | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hospitality | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hospitality | compound |
| 24 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: express | present | the young man | anyone obl; cry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | a knight hospitality | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospitality=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/6/