The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 81

Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dâd that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview.

Who acts: King · What happens: make, send on, tell, arrive, seek · To what, where: great encampment, merchant, Wali, interview · 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 (King), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 made	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 encampment	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 encampment	amod
4	encampment	encampment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 sent	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
16	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
17	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wali	flat
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 arrived	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 arrived	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Princess	cc
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 King	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Khaistan	case
24	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Princess	nmod
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 arrived	aux
26	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tell	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seeking	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seeking	aux
29	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 arrived	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 interview	det
31	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seeking	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past · passive		a great encampment		here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	send on	past · passive		the merchant			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			Wali		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wali=Recipient
4	arrive	past · perfect	the King and Princess of Khaistan				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	past · progressive	the King and Princess of Khaistan not said here	a interview			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=Theme

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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