--- title: He went hastily off to her apartments, and said to her: “I tell you… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went hastily off to her apartments, and said to her: “I tell you what it is, my dear, this man wants to marry you; that is the meaning of all these presents! Who acts: Wali, courtyard, man, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/69/) [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/) / 69 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 69 He went hastily off to her apartments, and said to her: “I tell you what it is, my dear, this man wants to marry you; that is the meaning of all these presents! **Who acts:** Wali, courtyard, man, that · **What happens:** go, say, tell, be, want, marry · **To what, where:** princess, meaning · **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, courtyard, man, that), 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:pg3282:34:69 # text = He went hastily off to her apartments, and said to her: “I tell you what it is, my dear, this man wants to marry you; that is the meaning of all these presents! 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 off off ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 ccomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Wali | | | | | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Wali *not said here* | | princess | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Wali | | princess | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | courtyard | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | this man | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | this man *not said here* | princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the meaning | | | | of all presents | tree rules | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/70/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/)