The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 25

“Of course,” cried the merchant, greatly amused; “from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.”

Who acts: merchant · What happens: cry, know, live · To what, where: Baghdad, Delhi, treasures, Constantinople, none · 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), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	_	3 course	case
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 course	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 course	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 amused	punct
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	11 amused	advmod
11	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 Delhi	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Delhi	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Delhi	case
15	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Baghdad	case
17	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 Constantinople	case
21	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 know	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Lucknow	case
23	Lucknow	Lucknow	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Constantinople	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Constantinople	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 them	nmod:unmarked
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 lives	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lives	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 lives	expl
32	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
33	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	32 lives	obj
34	worthier	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 none	amod
35	than	than	ADP	_	41 prince	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 prince	det
37	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 prince	amod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wealthy	cc
39	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gallant	conj
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 prince	amod
41	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worthier	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Nekabad	case
43	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 prince	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 lives	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 lives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the merchant		Baghdad	Delhi	of course	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to baghdad=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	the merchant = merchant	treasures = treasure		Constantinople to Lucknow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	live in a quote	present	the merchant not said here	none		there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme none=Location

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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