The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 3

Another of his favourite amusements was to give out that he was not well, and could not be seen; and then, with the knowledge only of his faithful Grand Wazeer, to disguise himself as a pedlar, load a donkey with cheap wares, and travel about.

Who acts: Another, king · What happens: give out, not be, not see, disguise, load, travel · To what, where: king, donkey

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 (Another, 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	Another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 give	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 amusements	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 amusements	nmod:poss
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amusements	amod
5	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Another	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 well	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 well	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 well	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 give	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seen	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 seen	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 seen	aux:pass
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 give	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 knowledge	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knowledge	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 knowledge	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knowledge	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 knowledge	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knowledge	det
27	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	parataxis
28	only	only	ADV	_	33 Wazeer	advmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 Wazeer	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Wazeer	nmod:poss
31	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Wazeer	amod
32	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Wazeer	amod
33	Wazeer	Wazeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 knowledge	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 disguise	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 disguise	mark
36	disguise	disguise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 Wazeer	parataxis
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 disguise	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 pedlar	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pedlar	det
40	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 disguise	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 load	punct
42	load	load	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 disguise	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 donkey	det
44	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 load	obj
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 wares	case
46	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wares	amod
47	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 donkey	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 travel	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 travel	cc
50	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 disguise	conj
51	about	about	ADV	_	50 travel	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give out	past	Another				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not is	past	king			well property	tree rules
3	not see	could · passive	Another not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	disguise	to-infinitive		king		as a pedlar	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
5	load	infinitive			a donkey	with cheap wares	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent donkey=Destination with ware=Theme
6	travel	infinitive				about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	amuse		king				nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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