The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 49
So he made no difficulty about it; and as soon as he could get things ready, he set out for Nekabad with this new and princely gift.
Who acts: matter · What happens: make, get, set out · To what, where: difficulty, things
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 (matter), 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 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 difficulty | det |
| 5 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 difficulty | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 get | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | parataxis |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Nekabad | case |
| 23 | Nekabad | Nekabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 gift | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 gift | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gift | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 princely | cc |
| 28 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 new | conj |
| 29 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | matter | no difficulty | about difficulty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product | |||
| 2 | get | could | matter | things | ready, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | set out | past | matter | for Nekabad; with this new gift | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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