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title: Wali Dâd was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wali Dâd was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and after a little talk he asked the merchant who was the most virtuous and beautiful lady he had ever met with. Who acts: Wali, merchant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 11

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Wali Dâd was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and after a little talk he asked the merchant who was the most virtuous and beautiful lady he had ever met with.

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**Who acts:** Wali, merchant · **What happens:** be, find, sit down, ask, meet · **To what, where:** Wali, home, merchant, virtuous lady

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:34:11
# text = Wali Dâd was lucky enough to find him at home, so he sat down, and after a little talk he asked the merchant who was the most virtuous and beautiful lady he had ever met with.
1	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wali |  |  |  |  | enough, lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Wali *not said here* | Wali |  | home |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at home=Asset |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | Wali |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Wali | the merchant |  |  | after a little talk |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the merchant | the virtuous lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **meet** | past · perfect | Wali | the virtuous lady *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**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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