The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 12
The merchant replied that the princess of Khaistan was renowned everywhere as well for the beauty of her person as for the kindness and generosity of her disposition.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: reply, renown · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 renowned | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 renowned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Khaistan | case |
| 8 | Khaistan | Khaistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 renowned | aux:pass |
| 10 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 renowned | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 renowned | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beauty | det |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 renowned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 person | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 person | nmod:poss |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 kindness | case |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 kindness | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kindness | det |
| 23 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 renowned | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 generosity | cc |
| 25 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kindness | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 disposition | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 disposition | nmod:poss |
| 28 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 generosity | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the merchant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | renown | past · passive | the princess of Khaistan | for the beauty of merchant's person; as the kindness and generosity of merchant's disposition; everywhere property | tree rules |
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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