The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 64
The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dâd that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward.
Who acts: Wali · What happens: object, point out, begin, feel · To what, where: merchant, embassies
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 (Wali), 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 | 5 objected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 objected | obl |
| 5 | objected | object | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 remarks | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 remarks | det |
| 8 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 objected | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pointed | cc |
| 11 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 objected | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pointed | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Wali | case |
| 14 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pointed | obl:agent |
| 15 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wali | flat |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 beginning | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beginning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beginning | aux |
| 19 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 pointed | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 feel | mark |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 beginning | xcomp |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 embassies | det |
| 23 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 feel | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 awkward | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 embassies | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | participle · passive | the merchant | to this remarks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point out | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past · progressive | Wali | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | Wali not said here | this embassies | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=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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