The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 78

The cobbler did not know what to make of these strange words; but he was wiser than many people, and when he did not understand, he thought it was well to obey.

Who acts: cobbler, two more · What happens: not know, make, be, not understand, think, obey · 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 (cobbler, two more), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 make	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 words	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 words	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wiser	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 wiser	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wiser	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wiser	cop
17	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 know	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wiser	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 understand	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 understand	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 understand	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 understand	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 understand	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 understand	advmod
27	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wiser	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wiser	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 well	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 well	cop
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 thought	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 obey	mark
35	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 well	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the cobbler		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive		of this strange words	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
3	is	past	cobbler	than many people; wise property	tree rules
4	not understand	past · do-support	cobbler		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	cobbler		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	two more = more	well property	tree rules
7	obey	to-infinitive	two more = more not said here		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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