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title: “Of course,” cried the merchant, greatly amused; “from Delhi to Bagh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Of course,” cried the merchant, greatly amused; “from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.” Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâ
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 25

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“Of course,” cried the merchant, greatly amused; “from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.”

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** cry, know, live · **To what, where:** Baghdad, Delhi, treasures, Constantinople, none · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg3282:34:25
# text = “Of course,” cried the merchant, greatly amused; “from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	amused	amused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Lucknow	Lucknow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	32	obj	_	_
34	worthier	worthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
37	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the merchant |  | Baghdad | Delhi |  | of course | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to baghdad=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the merchant *= merchant* | treasures *= treasure* |  | Constantinople to Lucknow |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the merchant *not said here* | none |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme none=Location |

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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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