The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 189

Nur Mahomed soon proved himself as able and honourable a governor as he was a brave soldier; and, when the old king died, he became king in his place, and reigned long and happily.

Who acts: Nur, old king, king · What happens: prove, be, die, become, reign · To what, where: Nur, brave soldier, king, place

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, old king, king), 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	Nur	nur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proved	nsubj
2	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nur	appos
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 proved	advmod
4	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 proved	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	11 governor	case
7	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 governor	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 honourable	cc
9	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 able	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 governor	det
11	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proved	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 soldier	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 soldier	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 soldier	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 soldier	det
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soldier	amod
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proved	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 became	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 king	amod
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 became	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proved	conj
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 place	nmod:poss
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 reigned	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 reigned	cc
35	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proved	conj
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 reigned	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 happily	cc
38	happily	happily	ADV	_	36 long	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prove	past	Nur	Nur	as a able governor; soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as governor=Attribute
2	is a	past	Nur	a brave soldier		tree rules
3	die	past	the old king			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	become	past	king	king	in king's place result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result
5	reign	past	Nur not said here		long property	tree rules

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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