The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 47

While he was pondering what could have brought this into the merciless desert, a man drew near who was dressed like a faqir, and had bare head and feet, but walked with the free carriage of a person of rank.

Who acts: foot, man · What happens: ponder, bring, draw, dress, have, walk · To what, where: this, merciless desert, bare head

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (foot, man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 pondering	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pondering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pondering	aux
4	pondering	ponder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 brought	nsubj:pass
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 brought	nsubj:pass
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 brought	aux
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 brought	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 desert	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 desert	det
12	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 desert	amod
13	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drew	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 desert	acl:relcl
18	near	near	ADP	_	21 dressed	mark
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dressed	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dressed	aux:pass
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 drew	advcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 faqir	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 faqir	det
24	faqir	faqir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dressed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drew	conj
28	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 head	amod
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 feet	cc
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 head	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 walked	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 walked	cc
34	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 carriage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 carriage	det
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 carriage	amod
38	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 walked	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 person	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 person	det
41	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carriage	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 rank	case
43	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 person	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ponder	past · progressive	foot				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	could · perfect · passive		this	the merciless desert		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination this=Theme
3	draw	past	a man	the merciless desert not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Theme
4	dress	past · passive				like a faqir	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	have	past	a man not said here	bare head and feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
6	walk	past	a man not said here			with the free carriage of a person of rank	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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