The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 82
When the merchant arrived he found the poor old man eating his evening meal of onions and dry bread, and when he told him of all that had happened he had not the heart to proceed to load him with the reproaches which rose to his tongue.
Who acts: merchant, king, poor old man, all, reproaches · What happens: arrive, find, eat, tell, happen, have · To what, where: poor old man, evening meal, man, heart, king, tongue · 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 (merchant, king, poor old man, all), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meal | compound |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eating | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 onions | case |
| 16 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meal | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bread | cc |
| 18 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bread | amod |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 onions | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 told | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | nsubj |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 happened | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happened | aux |
| 30 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 told | ccomp |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happened | parataxis |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 heart | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 heart | det |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 proceed | mark |
| 37 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 heart | acl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 load | mark |
| 39 | load | load | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 proceed | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 load | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 reproaches | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 reproaches | det |
| 43 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 load | obl |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 rose | nsubj |
| 45 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 reproaches | acl:relcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 tongue | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 48 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rose | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | king | the poor old man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | the poor old man not said here | king's evening meal of onions and dry bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | king | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | past | king | the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 7 | proceed | to-infinitive | king not said here | the heart not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | load | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | with the reproaches | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with reproach=Theme | |||
| 9 | rise | past | the reproaches | king's tongue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tongue=Initial_Location |
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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