The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 47

Still, if you will accept six mules and their loads, and will take the rest straight to Nekabad, I shall thank you heartily.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: accept, take, thank · To what, where: six mules, rest, you

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 (you, I), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 accept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 accept	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 accept	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 accept	aux
6	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 mules	nummod
8	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accept	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 loads	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 loads	nmod:poss
11	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mules	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 accept	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Nekabad	case
20	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 straight	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thank	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thank	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 thank	aux
24	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 thank	obj
26	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	24 thank	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accept	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	accept	future	you	six mules and mules's loads		still		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme
2	take	future		the rest			straight property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	shall	I		you		heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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