The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 75

Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dâd’s representative, that he hardly got an instant’s real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away.

Who acts: king, opportunity, instant · What happens: run away, treat, get, slip away, pacify · To what, where: king, real peace

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, opportunity, instant), 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	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 treated	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 treated	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	aux:pass
11	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 run	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 hospitality	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hospitality	amod
15	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 representative	case
17	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 representative	nmod:poss
18	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wali	flat
19	’s	's	PART	_	17 Wali	case
20	representative	representative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 got	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
24	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 instant	det
27	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 peace	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 instant	case
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 peace	amod
30	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 opportunity	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 opportunity	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 opportunity	advmod
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 opportunity	det
35	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obl
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 slipping	mark
37	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 opportunity	acl
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 slipping	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run away	would · perfect	king		away, willingly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	treat	past · passive		king	with much hospitality; as Wali's representative	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with hospitality=Theme
3	get	past	king	a instant's real peace	any opportunity obl; hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus
4	slip away	gerund	any opportunity not said here		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	pacify		a instant			nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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