The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 125

Nur Mahomed hid it carefully in his turban, swung himself into the saddle, and five minutes later rode out of the city gates, and set out on his long journey.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: hide, swing, ride out, set out, journey · To what, where: packet, turban, Nur, saddle, city gates, long journey

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
2	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	obj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 turban	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 turban	nmod:poss
8	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swung	punct
10	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 swung	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 saddle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 saddle	det
14	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rode	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rode	cc
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 minutes	nummod
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 later	obl:unmarked
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 rode	advmod
20	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	25 gates	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 gates	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gates	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gates	compound
25	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rode	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
28	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rode	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 set	compound:prt
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 journey	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 journey	amod
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Nur	packet	Nur's turban	carefully property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in turban=Location
2	swing	past	Nur not said here	Nur	the saddle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into saddle=Trajectory
3	ride out	past		the city gates		late property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
4	set out	past			Nur's long journey		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	journey		Nur				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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