The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 26

“Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,” said Wali Dâd, much relieved to be rid of them.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: take, say, be, bless · To what, where: silks, Wali, old man · 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), 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	_	7 take	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 then	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 take	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 then	punct
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 silks	det
9	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blessing	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 blessing	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blessing	det
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blessing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
24	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Wali	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 relieved	punct
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 relieved	advmod
27	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	30 rid	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 rid	cop
30	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 relieved	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive		the silks	Wali	then	with the blessing of a old man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent silk=Theme to he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Wali					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	to-infinitive	Wali not said here				of silks = silk; rid property	tree rules
4	bless in a quote			a old man				nom blessing «act transitive»: of=patient

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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