The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 9
But the young man did not heed them, and only struck a furious blow at the gate.
Who acts: young man · What happens: not heed, strike · To what, where: echoes, furious blow, gate
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 heed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heed | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heed | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 heed | advmod |
| 7 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 struck | advmod |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heed | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 14 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 gate | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gate | det |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | past · do-support | the young man | echoes = echo | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the young man not said here | a furious blow | the gate | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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