The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 24

But, presently, after much thought, he begged the merchant to consider whether he did not know of some young prince to whom such treasures might be useful.

Who acts: Wali, such treasures · What happens: beg, consider, not know, be · To what, where: merchant · 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, such treasures), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
3	presently	presently	ADV	_	7 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 presently	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 thought	case
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	amod
7	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchant	det
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 consider	mark
14	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	ccomp
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 know	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 consider	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 prince	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 prince	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 prince	amod
23	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 prince	nmod
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 treasures	amod
27	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 useful	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 useful	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 useful	cop
30	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whom	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Wali	the merchant	after much thought		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	consider not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	Wali			of some young prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of prince=Stimulus
4	is	might	such treasures			useful 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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