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The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 28

When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dâd had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: show, produce, send, beg, accept, gift · To what, where: Wali, presence, beautiful gift, silks, young 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

advmodnsubjaux:passadvclcasenmod:possoblnsubjdetamodobjcasenmodobjnsubjflatauxacl:relclpunctccconjdetamodobjmarkccompobjcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possoblccconjpunctrootWhenADVhePRONwasAUXshownVERBintoADPhisPRONpresenceNOUNhePRONproducedVERBtheDETbeautifulADJgiftNOUNofADPsilksNOUNthatPRONWaliPROPNDâdPROPNhadAUXsentVERB,PUNCTandCCONJbeggedVERBtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNtoPARTacceptVERBthemPRONasADPaDEThumbleADJtributeNOUNtoADPhisPRONworthNOUNandCCONJgreatnessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 shownadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 shownnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 shownaux:pass
4shownshowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 producedadvcl
5intointoADP_7 presencecase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 presencenmod:poss
7presencepresenceNOUNNumber=Sing4 shownobl
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 producednsubj
9producedproduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 giftdet
11beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos12 giftamod
12giftgiftNOUNNumber=Sing9 producedobj
13ofofADP_14 silkscase
14silkssilkNOUNNumber=Plur12 giftnmod
15thatthatPRONPronType=Rel19 sentobj
16WaliWaliPROPNNumber=Sing19 sentnsubj
17DâdDâdPROPNNumber=Sing16 Waliflat
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 sentaux
19sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part14 silksacl:relcl
20,,PUNCT_22 beggedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 beggedcc
22beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 producedconj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 mandet
24youngyoungADJDegree=Pos25 manamod
25manmanNOUNNumber=Sing22 beggedobj
26totoPART_27 acceptmark
27acceptacceptVERBVerbForm=Inf22 beggedccomp
28themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 acceptobj
29asasADP_32 tributecase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 tributedet
31humblehumbleADJDegree=Pos32 tributeamod
32tributetributeNOUNNumber=Sing27 acceptobl
33totoADP_35 worthcase
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 worthnmod:poss
35worthworthNOUNNumber=Sing27 acceptobl
36andandCCONJ_37 greatnesscc
37greatnessgreatnessNOUNNumber=Sing35 worthconj
38..PUNCT_9 producedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1showpast · passiveWaliWali's presencevn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into presence=Recipient
2producepastWalithe beautiful gift of silksvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Result
3sendpast · perfectWalisilksvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4beg speech: requestpastWali not said herethe young manvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
5accept not said to happento-infinitivesilks = silkas a humble tribute; to Wali's worth and greatnessvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as tribute=Attribute
6giftsilksnom gift «possession 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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