The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 66
The knight did as the old witch bade him, and, sure enough, she came out quite whole, but uglier than ever.
Who acts: knight, bade · What happens: do, come out · To what, where: old witch bade
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 (knight, bade), 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 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 bade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bade | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bade | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bade | compound |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sure | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 sure | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 whole | advmod |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 uglier | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 uglier | cc |
| 23 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 came | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 uglier | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the knight | the old witch bade | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | bade | out, whole property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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