The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 45

Thus, in a few hours, the merchant found himself in charge of a splendid caravan; and he had to hire a number of armed men to defend it on the road against the robbers, and he was glad indeed to find himself back again in Wali Dâd’s hut.

Who acts: few hours, king · What happens: find, have, hire, defend, be, charge · To what, where: king, charge, number, road, hut, splendid caravan

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 (few hours, king), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	6 hours	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hours	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hours	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hours	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 found	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 charge	case
13	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 caravan	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 caravan	det
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 caravan	amod
17	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 charge	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hire	mark
23	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 number	det
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hire	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 men	case
27	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 defend	mark
30	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hire	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 defend	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 road	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 road	det
34	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 defend	obl
35	against	against	ADP	_	37 robbers	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 robbers	det
37	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 road	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 glad	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 glad	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 glad	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 glad	cop
42	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 had	parataxis
43	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	42 glad	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 find	mark
45	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 glad	advcl
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 find	obj
47	back	back	ADV	_	48 again	advmod
48	again	again	ADV	_	45 find	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 hut	case
50	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 hut	nmod:poss
51	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Wali	flat
52	’s	's	PART	_	50 Wali	case
53	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 find	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a few hours	king	charge of a splendid caravan			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	have	past	king					tree rules
3	hire	to-infinitive	king not said here	a number of armed men				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
4	defend	to-infinitive	king not said here	number	the road against the robbers			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
5	is	past	king				glad, indeed property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	king not said here	king	Wali's hut	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
7	charge			a splendid caravan				nom charge «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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