The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 168

As soon as he was ushered into his presence he took the letter from his turban and placed it in the governor’s hands according to orders.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: usher, take, place, accord · To what, where: Nur, presence, letter, turban, hands

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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 took	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 ushered	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ushered	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ushered	aux:pass
6	ushered	usher	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 presence	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 presence	nmod:poss
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ushered	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 letter	det
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 turban	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 turban	nmod:poss
16	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 placed	cc
18	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 placed	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 hands	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 governor	det
22	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hands	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 governor	case
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 placed	obl
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 orders	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 placed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	usher	past · passive		Nur	Nur's presence		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	take	past	Nur	the letter	Nur's turban	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from turban=Initial_Location
3	place	past	Nur not said here	letter	the governor's hands	accord orders	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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