The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 69

He went hastily off to her apartments, and said to her: “I tell you what it is, my dear, this man wants to marry you; that is the meaning of all these presents!

Who acts: Wali, courtyard, man, that · What happens: go, say, tell, be, want, marry · To what, where: princess, meaning · 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 (Wali, courtyard, man, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	4 off	advmod
4	off	off	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 apartments	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 apartments	nmod:poss
7	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 off	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 tell	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 what	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dear	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wants	punct
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wants	nsubj
27	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dear	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 marry	mark
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wants	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 marry	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 meaning	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 meaning	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 meaning	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 meaning	det
35	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 presents	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 presents	det:predet
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 presents	det
39	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 meaning	nmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Wali			off property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Wali not said here		princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Wali		princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	courtyard				tree rules
5	want in a quote	present	this man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	this man not said here	princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	is a in a quote	present	that	the meaning		of all presents	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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