The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 28

He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afruz.

Who acts: prince, land, Princess afruz · What happens: wander, hear, be, understand, riddle · To what, where: nothing, one, land, riddle

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, land, Princess afruz), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 city	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 heard	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 service	case
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 one	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 land	det:predet
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 understood	nsubj
23	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 land	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 riddle	det
25	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 understood	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 afruz	case
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 afruz	compound
28	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Princess	flat
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 afruz	punct
30	afruz	afruz	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 riddle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	prince			about the city	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory
2	hear	past		nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	is a	past		no one	all land		tree rules
4	understand	past	all land	the riddle of Princess afruz			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer riddle=Stimulus
5	riddle		Princess afruz				nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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