The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 66

At length, however he consented to go once more, but he promised himself never to embark on another such enterprise.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: consent, go, promise, not embark · To what, where: length, Wali, such enterprise

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consented	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 consented	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 consented	nsubj
6	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consented	xcomp
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promised	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 promised	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	nsubj
14	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consented	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 promised	obj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 embark	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 embark	mark
18	embark	embark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promised	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 enterprise	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 enterprise	det
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 enterprise	amod
22	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 embark	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Wali		length	however property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	Wali not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	Wali	Wali			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not embark not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wali not said here		another such enterprise		tree rules

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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