The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 111
Nur Mahomed, who had been lazily watching him, stood still for a moment, then he came back whistling softly.
Who acts: Nur · What happens: watch, stand, come back, whistle · To what, where: Nur
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), 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 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nur | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 watching | aux |
| 7 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 8 watching | advmod |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nur | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nur | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 stood | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 22 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 21 whistling | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | Nur | Nur | lazily property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Nur | still; moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | Nur | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | whistle | gerund | Nur not said here | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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