The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 103

Officers of the bodyguard were often sent on all sorts of secret and difficult errands, and such errands had a curious way of becoming necessary when Nur Mahomed was on duty.

Who acts: such errands, curious way, Nur · What happens: send, have, become, be, sort · To what, where: Officers, sorts, curious way, duty, secret

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such errands, curious way, Nur), 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	Officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 bodyguard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bodyguard	det
4	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Officers	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	aux:pass
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sorts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 secret	case
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorts	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 errands	cc
14	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 errands	amod
15	errands	errand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sorts	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 errands	amod
19	errands	errand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 becoming	mark
25	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 way	acl
26	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 becoming	xcomp
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 duty	advmod
28	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 duty	nsubj
29	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Nur	flat
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 duty	cop
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 duty	case
32	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 necessary	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Officers of the bodyguard	all sorts of secret and difficult errands	often property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	past	such errands	a curious way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	become	gerund	a curious way not said here			necessary property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	Nur		duty		tree rules
5	sort			secret			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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