The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 68
And, besides these, he found in another cavern the bodies of the girls who had been sacrificed to the dragon, and brought them back to life also.
Who acts: these · What happens: find, sacrifice, bring back · To what, where: cavern, girls, dragon, life
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 (these), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 these | punct |
| 3 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 found | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 these | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cavern | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cavern | det |
| 10 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bodies | det |
| 12 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cavern | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 girls | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bodies | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sacrificed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 19 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girls | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dragon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sacrificed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | these | another cavern the bodies of the girls | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sacrifice | past · perfect · passive | the girls | the dragon | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to dragon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | these not said here | girls = girl | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=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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