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title: The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dâd in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them. Who acts: merchant, credit, prince, such glowing t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 51

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The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dâd in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them.

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**Who acts:** merchant, credit, prince, such glowing terms · **What happens:** feel, be, determine, not carry, not help, describe · **To what, where:** stake, joke, Wali, old man, terms

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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, credit, prince, such glowing terms), 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:pg3282:34:51
# text = The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dâd in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
12	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	inwardly	inwardly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
14	determining	determine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	any	any	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
28	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince's credit |  |  | stake |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **carry** | would | prince | the joke |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **help** | could | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whilst inwardly | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **describe** *not said to happen* | gerund | the merchant *not said here* | Wali |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wali=Theme |
| 7 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | past | such glowing terms |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **hear** | past | prince | terms *= term* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 11 | **credit** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom credit «communication transitive»: poss=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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