The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 60

“Riches!” cried Wali Dâd, “what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches?

Who acts: Riches · What happens: cry, have, do · To what, where: Wali, old man · 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 (Riches), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Riches	punct
2	Riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Riches	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Riches	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wali	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 man	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 foot	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 foot	nummod
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 grave	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grave	det
22	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foot	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 riches	case
26	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 do	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Riches	Wali		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wali=Topic
2	have in a quote	present		a old man	like Riches = rich; with one foot in the grave	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive			with riches	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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