The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 126

The weather was very hot; but Nur Mahomed thought that the sooner his precious letter was delivered the better; so that, by dint of riding most of each night and resting only in the hottest part of the day, he found himself, by noon on the third day, approaching the town which was his final destination.

Who acts: weather, Nur, dint, town · What happens: be, think, deliver, ride, rest, find · To what, where: precious letter, most, hottest part, Nur, town, final destination

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 (weather, Nur, dint, town), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
8	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
9	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Nur	flat
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 delivered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sooner	det
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 delivered	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 letter	nmod:poss
15	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 letter	amod
16	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 delivered	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 delivered	aux:pass
18	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 better	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 delivered	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 dint	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 dint	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 so	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dint	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 dint	case
26	dint	dint	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 riding	mark
28	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 dint	acl
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 riding	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 night	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 most	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 resting	cc
34	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 riding	conj
35	only	only	ADV	_	39 part	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 part	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 part	det
38	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 part	amod
39	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 resting	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 day	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 part	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 found	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 found	nsubj
45	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	parataxis
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 found	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 noon	punct
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 noon	case
49	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 found	obl
50	on	on	ADP	_	53 day	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 day	det
52	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 day	amod
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 noon	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 approaching	punct
55	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 found	advcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 town	det
57	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 approaching	obj
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 destination	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 destination	cop
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 destination	nmod:poss
61	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 destination	amod
62	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 town	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weather				hot property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Nur					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	deliver	past · passive		Nur's precious letter			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary good=Patient
4	ride	gerund	dint not said here	most of each night				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
5	rest	gerund	dint not said here		the hottest part of the day			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location
6	find	past	Nur	Nur		noon		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
7	approach	gerund	Nur not said here	the town				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
8	is a	past	the town	Nur's final destination				tree rules
9	letter		Nur					nom letter «communication 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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