The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 51

The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dâd in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them.

Who acts: merchant, credit, prince, such glowing terms · What happens: feel, be, determine, not carry, not help, describe · To what, where: stake, joke, Wali, old man, terms

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, credit, prince, such glowing terms), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stake	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 credit	nmod:poss
6	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stake	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stake	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 stake	case
9	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 help	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 help	cc
12	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	13 inwardly	case
13	inwardly	inwardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 help	obl
14	determining	determine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 inwardly	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 carry	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carry	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 carry	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 carry	advmod
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 determining	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 joke	det
21	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carry	obj
22	any	any	ADV	_	23 further	advmod
23	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 carry	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inwardly	punct
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 help	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 help	advmod
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 felt	advcl
28	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 help	xcomp
29	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 describing	obj
30	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Wali	flat
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 terms	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 terms	amod
33	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 terms	amod
34	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 had	nsubj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 known	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 known	nsubj:pass
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 known	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 known	advmod
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 known	aux
42	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 terms	acl:relcl
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 known	obj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 describing	parataxis
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 heard	nsubj
46	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 had	ccomp
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 heard	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the merchant				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	prince's credit		stake		tree rules
3	determine	gerund					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not carry	would	prince	the joke		far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
5	not help	could	the merchant not said here			whilst inwardly	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	describe not said to happen	gerund	the merchant not said here	Wali			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wali=Theme
7	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	not know	would · perfect · passive		the old man			tree rules
9	have	past	such glowing terms				tree rules
10	hear	past	prince	terms = term			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
11	credit		prince				nom credit «communication 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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