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The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 10

With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.

Who acts: man, rich friend · What happens: wrap up, go, be, use, wander · To what, where: this, cotton waistband, house, travelling merchant, many countries

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, rich friend), 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

marknsubj:passadvmodadvclcompound:prtcasenmod:posscompoundoblnsubjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjcopdetcompoundconjpunctccconjmarkxcompadvmodcasenmod:possoblccconjcaseamodoblpunctrootWithSCONJthisPRONcarefullyADVwrappedVERBupADPinADPhisPRONcottonNOUNwaistbandNOUNhePRONwentVERBtoADPtheDEThouseNOUNofADPaDETrichADJfriendNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXaDETtravellingNOUNmerchantNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJusedVERBtoPARTwanderVERBaboutADVwithADPhisPRONcamelsNOUNandCCONJmerchandiseNOUNthroughADPmanyADJcountriesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WithwithSCONJ_4 wrappedmark
2thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 wrappednsubj:pass
3carefullycarefullyADV_4 wrappedadvmod
4wrappedwrapVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 wentadvcl
5upupADP_4 wrappedcompound:prt
6ininADP_9 waistbandcase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 waistbandnmod:poss
8cottoncottonNOUNNumber=Sing9 waistbandcompound
9waistbandwaistbandNOUNNumber=Sing4 wrappedobl
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12totoADP_14 housecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 housedet
14househouseNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
15ofofADP_18 friendcase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 frienddet
17richrichADJDegree=Pos18 friendamod
18friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing14 housenmod
19,,PUNCT_24 merchantpunct
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 merchantnsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 merchantcop
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 merchantdet
23travellingtravellingNOUNNumber=Sing24 merchantcompound
24merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing18 friendconj
25,,PUNCT_27 usedpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 usedcc
27useduseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wentconj
28totoPART_29 wandermark
29wanderwanderVERBVerbForm=Inf27 usedxcomp
30aboutaboutADV_29 wanderadvmod
31withwithADP_33 camelscase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 camelsnmod:poss
33camelscamelNOUNNumber=Plur29 wanderobl
34andandCCONJ_35 merchandisecc
35merchandisemerchandiseNOUNNumber=Sing33 camelsconj
36throughthroughADP_38 countriescase
37manymanyADJDegree=Pos38 countriesamod
38countriescountryNOUNNumber=Plur29 wanderobl
39..PUNCT_11 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wrap upparticiple · passivethisman's cotton waistbandcarefully propertyvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in waistband=Destination
2gopastmanthe house of a rich friend and a travelling merchantvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3is apasta rich friend and a travelling merchanta travelling merchanttree rules
4usepastman not said herevn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5wanderto-infinitiveman not said heremany countrieswith man's camels and merchandise; about propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory

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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