The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 41

So he told her that his friend had heard stories of her beauty and goodness, and had longed to lay the best he had at her feet.

Who acts: man, friend · What happens: tell, hear, long, lay, have · To what, where: merchant, stories, best, feet · 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, friend), 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	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beauty	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 beauty	nmod:poss
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goodness	cc
15	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beauty	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 longed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 longed	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 longed	aux
19	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lay	mark
21	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 longed	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 best	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 lay	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		merchant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	man's friend	stories of merchant's beauty and goodness			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	long	past · perfect	man not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	lay	to-infinitive	man not said here	the best			tree rules
5	have	past	man			merchant's feet	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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