The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 18

The princess could not think who could have bestowed this present on her, but she bade her servant to tell the merchant that if he would return, after he had finished his business in the city, she would give him her reply.

Who acts: princess, Wali, merchant · What happens: not think, bestow, bade, tell, return, finish · To what, where: present, servant, merchant, business, city, reply · 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 (princess, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bestowed	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bestowed	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bestowed	aux
9	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 think	ccomp
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 present	det
11	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestowed	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 present	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 bade	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 servant	nmod:poss
19	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bade	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bade	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 merchant	det
23	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 return	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 return	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 return	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 return	aux
28	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tell	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 finished	punct
30	after	after	SCONJ	_	33 finished	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 finished	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 finished	aux
33	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 return	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 business	nmod:poss
35	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 finished	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 city	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 city	det
38	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 finished	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 give	aux
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	iobj
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 reply	nmod:poss
45	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	could	the princess					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bestow	could · perfect · passive		this present			on princess	tree rules
3	bade	past	princess	princess's servant				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	princess not said here	the merchant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
5	return a condition, not said to happen	would	Wali					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	finish	past · perfect	Wali	Wali's business		the city		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector business=Eventuality
7	give	would	merchant	merchant's reply	Wali			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reply=Theme
8	reply		merchant					nom reply «communication 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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