--- title: When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dâd had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/) / 28 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 28 When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dâd had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness. **Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** show, produce, send, beg, accept, gift · **To what, where:** Wali, presence, beautiful gift, silks, young man · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:34:28 # text = When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dâd had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 silks silk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 16 Wali Wali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 Dâd Dâd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 tribute tribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 worth worth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 greatness greatness NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past · passive | | Wali | | Wali's presence | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into presence=Recipient | | 2 | **produce** | past | Wali | the beautiful gift of silks | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Result | | 3 | **send** | past · perfect | Wali | silks | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Wali *not said here* | | the young man | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | silks *= silk* | | | | as a humble tribute; to Wali's worth and greatness | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as tribute=Attribute | | 6 | **gift** | | | silks | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/29/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/)