The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 15

The merchant was naturally much astonished, but said nothing, and made no objection to carrying out his friend’s plan.

Who acts: merchant, friend · What happens: be, say, make, carry out, plan · To what, where: nothing, objection, plan · 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 astonished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	cop
4	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	parataxis
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 objection	det
15	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 carrying	mark
17	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 made	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 carrying	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 friend	nmod:poss
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plan	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 friend	case
22	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carrying	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the merchant		astonished property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	make	past		no objection		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product
4	carry out	gerund		Wali's friend's plan		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality
5	plan		Wali's friend			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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