The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 4

In this way he lived for many years until, one night, he thought that he would count the money he had hidden away in the great earthen pot under the floor of his hut.

Who acts: man · What happens: live, think, count, hide away · To what, where: way, money, great earthen pot · 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 (man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 way	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
9	until	until	ADP	_	12 night	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	nummod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 count	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 count	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 count	aux
19	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 money	det
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 count	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hidden	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hidden	aux
24	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 money	acl:relcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 hidden	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 pot	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pot	amod
29	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pot	amod
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hidden	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pot	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 hut	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hut	nmod:poss
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floor	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	man	this way not said here		night; year		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme way=Location
2	think speech: other	past	man		this way			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	count	would	man	the money				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	hide away	past · perfect	man	the money not said here	the great earthen pot under the floor of man's hut		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Patient in pot=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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