The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 105

Altogether, Nur Mahomed began to think that, somewhere or other, he had made an enemy; but he was light-hearted, and the thought did not much trouble him.

Who acts: Nur, thought · What happens: begin, think, make, be, do · To what, where: that, enemy, much trouble

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 (Nur, thought), 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	Altogether	altogether	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Altogether	punct
3	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
4	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nur	flat
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 think	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 somewhere	punct
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 think	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 somewhere	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 somewhere	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 enemy	det
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hearted	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 hearted	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hearted	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hearted	cop
23	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hearted	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 light	punct
25	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 began	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 did	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thought	det
29	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trouble	amod
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	obj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 trouble	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Nur		altogether property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Nur not said here	that		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	make	past · perfect	Nur	a enemy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Product
4	is	past	Nur		hearted property	tree rules
5	do	past	the thought	much trouble		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality

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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