The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 59

As soon as he got back he found the caravan had stopped at his door, and the merchant was waiting, a little anxiously, to tell him the news and to congratulate him upon his riches.

Who acts: Allah, caravan, merchant · What happens: get back, find, stop, wait, tell, congratulate · To what, where: door, news, Allah · 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 (Allah, caravan, merchant), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 got	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 caravan	det
10	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	aux
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 door	nmod:poss
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 waiting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 waiting	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 merchant	det
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 waiting	aux
21	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 got	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 anxiously	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 anxiously	advmod
25	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	21 waiting	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tell	mark
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 news	det
31	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 congratulate	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 congratulate	mark
34	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 congratulate	obj
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 riches	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 riches	nmod:poss
38	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 congratulate	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	past	Allah				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	Allah					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stop	past · perfect	the caravan			Allah's door		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
4	wait	past · progressive	the merchant				anxiously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the news	Allah			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic
6	congratulate	to-infinitive		Allah			upon Allah's riches	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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