The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 84

With tears he begged the merchant to detain them for one day by any kind of excuse he could think of, and to come in the morning to discuss what they should do.

Who acts: Wali, merchant, tears · What happens: beg, detain, think, come, discuss, do · To what, where: merchant, tears, excuse · 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, merchant, tears), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 tears	case
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 detain	mark
8	detain	detain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 detain	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 detain	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 kind	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 detain	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 excuse	case
17	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 think	aux
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 excuse	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 think	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 morning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 morning	det
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 discuss	mark
30	discuss	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	advcl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 do	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 discuss	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Wali	the merchant		with tears	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	detain not said to happen	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here	tears = tear	day	by any kind of excuse	vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	think speech: other	could	Wali	excuse not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot excuse=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive	Wali not said here		morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	discuss speech: other	to-infinitive	Wali not said here				vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	should	tears = tear				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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