The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 129

The governor was resting, the soldier said, and could not see him until the evening.

Who acts: governor · What happens: rest, say, not see · To what, where: soldier · 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 (governor), 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 governor	det
2	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resting	aux
4	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 governor	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 governor	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	until	until	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	the governor not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the governor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	could		soldier	evening	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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