The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 167
Late in the afternoon Nur Mahomed woke, and, making sure that the precious despatch was still safe, went off to get ready for his audience with the governor.
Who acts: Nur, precious despatch, making · What happens: wake, make, be, go off, get
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, precious despatch, making), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 woke | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 afternoon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 afternoon | det |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Late | obl |
| 5 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 woke | nsubj |
| 6 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nur | flat |
| 7 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 went | csubj |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 safe | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 despatch | det |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 despatch | amod |
| 16 | despatch | despatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 safe | advmod |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woke | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | advcl |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 get | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 audience | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 audience | nmod:poss |
| 28 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ready | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 governor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 governor | det |
| 31 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 audience | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Nur | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the precious despatch | still | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go off | past | making | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | making not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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