The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 26
Then Wali Dâd told the merchant all that had happened.
Who acts: Wali, that · What happens: tell, happen · To what, where: merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wali | flat |
| 4 | told | tell | 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 told | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 happened | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Wali | the merchant | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/26/