The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 73

At length his patience began to give way, and as he undressed one night he said to himself: “Well, I will give it one more chance; and if I don’t catch a fish to-morrow, I will go and hang myself.”

Who acts: patience, cobbler · What happens: begin, give, undress, say, not catch, go · To what, where: length, way, cobbler, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (patience, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 patience	nmod:poss
4	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 undressed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 undressed	nsubj
13	undressed	undress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 night	nummod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 undressed	obl:unmarked
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
22	Well	well	INTJ	_	26 give	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Well	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	obj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 chance	nummod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 chance	amod
30	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 go	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 catch	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 catch	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 catch	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 catch	advmod
37	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 go	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 fish	det
39	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 catch	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 morrow	case
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 to	punct
42	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 catch	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 catch	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 go	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 go	aux
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hang	cc
48	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 go	conj
49	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 hang	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 hang	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	cobbler's patience			length			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give	to-infinitive	cobbler's patience not said here	way					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	undress	past	cobbler				night		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	cobbler		cobbler				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give in a quote	future	cobbler	way					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient chance=Theme
6	not catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	cobbler	a fish				to morrow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
7	go in a quote	future	cobbler						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hang in a quote	infinitive	cobbler not said here	cobbler					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient

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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