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title: The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dâd that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 64

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The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dâd that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward.

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**Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** object, point out, begin, feel · **To what, where:** merchant, embassies

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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), 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:pg3282:34:64
# text = The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dâd that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
5	objected	object	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **object** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | the merchant |  |  |  | to this remarks | tree rules |
| 2 | **point out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past · progressive | Wali |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Wali *not said here* | this embassies |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme |

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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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