The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 13

“Then,” said Wali Dâd, “next time you go that way, give her this little bracelet, with the respectful compliments of one who admires virtue far more than he desires wealth.”

Who acts: Wali, you · What happens: say, go, give, admire, desire · To what, where: way, little bracelet, merchant, virtue, wealth · 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 (Wali, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wali	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 bracelet	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bracelet	amod
21	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 compliments	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 compliments	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 compliments	det
25	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 compliments	amod
26	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 compliments	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 admires	nsubj
30	admires	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 one	acl:relcl
31	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 admires	obj
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 virtue	amod
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 desires	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 desires	nsubj
36	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 more	advcl
37	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 desires	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wali			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present	you	that way		time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	this little bracelet	merchant		with the respectful compliments of one	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bracelet=Theme
4	admire in a quote	present		virtue				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer virtue=Stimulus
5	desire in a quote	present	Wali	wealth				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wealth=Theme

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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