The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 130

So Nur Mahomed handed over his horse to an attendant, and wandered down into the lovely gardens he had seen from the road, and sat down in the shade to rest himself.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: hand, wander down, see, sit down, rest · To what, where: attendant, lovely gardens, road, shade, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 handed	advmod
2	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 handed	nsubj
3	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nur	flat
4	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handed	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 attendant	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 attendant	det
10	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wandered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wandered	cc
13	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 handed	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 wandered	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 gardens	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gardens	det
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gardens	amod
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wandered	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 gardens	acl:relcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 road	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sat	cc
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 handed	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 sat	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 shade	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shade	det
31	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rest	mark
33	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sat	advcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 rest	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	Nur		a attendant	over Nur's horse	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to attendant=Destination
2	wander down	past	Nur not said here		the lovely gardens	down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination
3	see	past · perfect	Nur	the lovely gardens not said here	the road		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus
4	sit down	past	Nur not said here		the shade		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
5	rest	to-infinitive	Nur not said here	Nur			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme

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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