The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 19

In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel-load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: come back, receive

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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 therefore	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 received	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 received	cc
14	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 received	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 present	det
19	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	compound
20	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 princess	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 load	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 load	det
26	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 load	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 camel	punct
28	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shape	nmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 silks	cc
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 silks	amod
31	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 load	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 present	punct
33	besides	besides	ADP	_	35 present	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 present	det
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 received	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 money	case
37	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 present	nmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 himself	case
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 present	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the merchant				day	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	receive	past	the merchant not said here					from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel load or rich silks; besides a present of money for Wali	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from princess=Source

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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