The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 73
The merchant, the king declared, was to guide the party.
Who acts: king, merchant · What happens: declare, be · To what, where: merchant
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 (king, merchant), 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 | 10 guide | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchant | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchant | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 guide | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 guide | mark |
| 10 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 party | det |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guide | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the king | the merchant not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the merchant | guide property | 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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