The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 71

Now the cobbler was as patient about fishing as he had been about cobbling.

Who acts: cobbler · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cobbler), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 patient	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cobbler	det
3	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patient	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 patient	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 patient	case
6	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 fishing	case
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patient	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 cobbling	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cobbling	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cobbling	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 cobbling	cop
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 cobbling	case
14	cobbling	cobbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patient	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 patient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cobbler				now	about fishing; patient property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	cobbler					about cobbling	tree rules

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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