The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 65

Of course he was himself richly repaid, so far as expenses went; but still he did not like going so often, and he was getting nervous.

Who acts: Wali, expenses · What happens: be, go, not like, get

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, expenses), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 repaid	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 repaid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 repaid	cop
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 repaid	nsubj
6	richly	richly	ADV	_	7 repaid	advmod
7	repaid	repay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 went	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
12	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 repaid	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 like	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	20 like	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 like	advmod
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 repaid	conj
21	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 like	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 often	advmod
23	often	often	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 getting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 getting	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 getting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 getting	aux
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 repaid	advcl
29	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 getting	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 repaid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wali		repay, richly property	tree rules
2	go	past	expenses		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not like	past · do-support	Wali	still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	gerund	Wali not said here		often property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	past · progressive	Wali		nervous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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