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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 wrapped | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 wrapped | advmod |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 went | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 waistband | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 waistband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waistband | compound |
| 9 | waistband | waistband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 merchant | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 merchant | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 merchant | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 merchant | det |
| 23 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 merchant | compound |
| 24 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 friend | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 used | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 used | cc |
| 27 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 wander | mark |
| 29 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 used | xcomp |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 wander | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 camels | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 camels | nmod:poss |
| 33 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wander | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 merchandise | cc |
| 35 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 camels | conj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 countries | case |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 countries | amod |
| 38 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wander | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | participle · passive | this | man's cotton waistband | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in waistband=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | man | the house of a rich friend and a travelling merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a rich friend and a travelling merchant | a travelling merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | past | man not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | wander | to-infinitive | man not said here | many countries | with man's camels and merchandise; about property | vn 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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