The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 127
Not a soul was to be seen anywhere; and Nur Mahomed, stiff, dry, thirsty, and tired, looked longingly over the wall into the gardens, and marked the fountains, the green grass, the shady apricot orchards, and giant mulberry trees, and wished he were there.
Who acts: Nur · What happens: not see, look, mark, wish, be · To what, where: soul, fountains · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 soul | det |
| 3 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 seen | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Nur | cc |
| 11 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nur | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stiff | punct |
| 14 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Nur | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dry | punct |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stiff | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thirsty | punct |
| 18 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dry | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tired | cc |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dry | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nur | punct |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | parataxis |
| 24 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 wall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 gardens | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gardens | det |
| 30 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 marked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 marked | cc |
| 33 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fountains | det |
| 35 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 marked | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 grass | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 grass | det |
| 38 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 grass | amod |
| 39 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fountains | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 orchards | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 orchards | det |
| 42 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 orchards | amod |
| 43 | apricot | apricot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 orchards | compound |
| 44 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 grass | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 trees | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 trees | cc |
| 47 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 trees | amod |
| 48 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 trees | compound |
| 49 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 marked | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 wished | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 wished | cc |
| 52 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | conj |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 there | nsubj |
| 54 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 there | cop |
| 55 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 wished | ccomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · passive | a soul | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Nur | into the gardens; over the wall; longingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | past | Nur not said here | the fountains | giant mulberry trees obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fountain=Destination | |||
| 4 | wish | past | Nur not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Nur | there property | tree rules |
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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