The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 108

One day, when Nur Mahomed’s turn came to be on duty, he was just sitting down to a delicious stew that had been sent in from the palace, when one of those gaunt, hungry dogs, which, in eastern countries, run about the streets, poked his nose in at the open guard-room door, and looked at Nur Mahomed with mouth watering and nostrils working.

Who acts: turn, Nur, one, nostrils · What happens: come, be, sit down, send in, run, poke · To what, where: duty, delicious stew, palace, nose, open room door

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 (turn, Nur, one, nostrils), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
5	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nmod:poss
6	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Nur	flat
7	’s	's	PART	_	5 Nur	case
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	13 duty	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 duty	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 duty	case
13	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sitting	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sitting	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 sitting	advmod
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 duty	acl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 sitting	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 stew	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stew	det
22	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stew	amod
23	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sent	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 sent	aux:pass
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 stew	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 sent	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palace	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 run	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 run	mark
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 run	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 dogs	case
36	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 dogs	det
37	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dogs	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gaunt	punct
39	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dogs	amod
40	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 countries	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 countries	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 countries	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 countries	case
45	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 countries	amod
46	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 dogs	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 countries	punct
48	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 duty	parataxis
49	about	about	ADP	_	51 streets	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 streets	det
51	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 run	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 poked	punct
53	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 nose	nmod:poss
55	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 poked	obj
56	in	in	ADP	_	63 door	case
57	at	at	ADP	_	63 door	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 door	det
59	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 door	amod
60	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 room	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 guard	punct
62	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 door	compound
63	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 poked	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 looked	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 looked	cc
66	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
67	at	at	ADP	_	68 Nur	case
68	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 looked	obl
69	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 Nur	flat
70	with	with	ADP	_	71 mouth	case
71	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 looked	obl
72	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	66 looked	advcl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 working	cc
74	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 working	nsubj
75	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	72 watering	conj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Nur's turn			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			duty			tree rules
3	sit down	past · progressive	Nur	duty not said here			to a delicious stew; down property	tree rules
4	send in	past · perfect · passive		a delicious stew	the palace			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from palace=Initial_Location
5	run	present	one of that gaunt hungry dogs in eastern countries				about the streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory
6	poke	past	Nur's turn not said here	Nur's nose	the open room door			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
7	look	past	Nur's turn not said here				with mouth; at Nur	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nur=Theme
8	water	gerund	Nur's turn not said here					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
9	work	gerund	nostrils					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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