The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 11

Wali Dâd was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and after a little talk he asked the merchant who was the most virtuous and beautiful lady he had ever met with.

Who acts: Wali, merchant · What happens: be, find, sit down, ask, meet · To what, where: Wali, home, merchant, virtuous lady

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 (Wali, merchant), 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	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lucky	nsubj
2	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wali	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	cop
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 lucky	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lucky	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 talk	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 talk	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 talk	amod
21	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 merchant	det
25	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lady	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lady	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lady	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 virtuous	advmod
30	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lady	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beautiful	cc
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 virtuous	conj
33	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 merchant	acl:relcl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 met	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 met	aux
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 met	advmod
37	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 lady	acl:relcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	37 met	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wali				enough, lucky property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Wali not said here	Wali	home			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at home=Asset
3	sit down	past	Wali					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	Wali	the merchant		after a little talk		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient
5	is a	past	the merchant	the virtuous lady				tree rules
6	meet	past · perfect	Wali	the virtuous lady not said here		ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-Agent

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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