The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 27

So, the next time that the merchant journeyed that way he carried the silks with him, and in due course arrived at Nekabad, and sought an audience of the prince.

Who acts: merchant, Wali · What happens: journey, carry, arrive, seek · To what, where: way, silks, due course, audience

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 carried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 journeyed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 journeyed	nsubj
9	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 journeyed	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 silks	det
15	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carried	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arrived	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arrived	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 course	case
21	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 course	amod
22	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 Nekabad	case
25	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sought	cc
28	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 audience	det
30	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 prince	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 prince	det
33	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 audience	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	journey	past	the merchant	that way				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	carry	past	Wali	the silks		time	with man	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Theme
3	arrive	past	Wali not said here		due course		at Nekabad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	past	Wali not said here	a audience of the prince				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Theme

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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