The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 46

“Well, now,” cried Wali Dâd, as he viewed all the wealth laid at his door, “I can well repay that kind prince for his magnificent present of horses; but to be sure you have been put to great expenses!

Who acts: Wali, wealth · What happens: cry, view, lay, repay, be, put · To what, where: door, kind prince, you · 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, wealth), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cried	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wali	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 viewed	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 viewed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 viewed	nsubj
13	viewed	view	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 wealth	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wealth	det
16	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 viewed	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 door	nmod:poss
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 repay	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 repay	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 repay	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 repay	aux
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 repay	advmod
26	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 laid	conj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 prince	det
28	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 prince	amod
29	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 repay	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 present	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 present	nmod:poss
32	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 present	amod
33	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 repay	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 horses	case
35	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 present	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	40 sure	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	cop
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 put	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 put	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 put	aux:pass
44	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 sure	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 expenses	case
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 expenses	amod
47	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 put	obl
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wali			now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	view	past	Wali					vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	lay	past	all wealth		Wali's door			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at door=Destination
4	repay in a quote	can	Wali	that kind prince			for Wali's magnificent present of horses; well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent prince=Asset for present=Theme
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Wali not said here				sure property	tree rules
6	put in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you			to great expenses	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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