The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 48
The merchant felt handsomely repaid for his trouble, and wondered greatly how the matter would turn out.
Who acts: merchant, matter, Nekabad · What happens: feel, repay, wonder, turn out, trouble · 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 (merchant, matter, Nekabad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 5 repaid | advmod |
| 5 | repaid | repay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repaid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wondered | cc |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 17 turn | advmod |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 turn | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 turn | aux |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wondered | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 turn | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the merchant | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | repay | participle | the merchant not said here | for Nekabad's trouble; handsomely property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | the merchant not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | turn out | would | the matter | greatly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trouble | Nekabad | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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