The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 142

But there he was, a young man, tanned and dusty with travel, in the uniform of an officer of the king’s guard.

Who acts: young man · What happens: be, tan · To what, where: young man, uniform

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 (young man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tanned	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
10	tanned	tan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dusty	cc
12	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tanned	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 travel	case
14	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dusty	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 uniform	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 uniform	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 uniform	det
18	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tanned	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 officer	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 officer	det
21	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uniform	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 guard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guard	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 king	case
26	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 officer	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tanned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a young man					tree rules
2	tan	past	a young man			the uniform of a officer of the king's guard			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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