The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 47

Next he disguised himself as an ordinary messenger, mounted a swift camel, and sped away to the place where the slave girl was to be handed over to him.

Who acts: king · What happens: disguise, mount, speed away, hand over · To what, where: king, swift camel, place, slave girl

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 (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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 disguised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disguised	nsubj
3	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 disguised	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 messenger	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 messenger	det
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 messenger	amod
8	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disguised	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mounted	punct
10	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disguised	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 camel	det
12	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 camel	compound
13	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mounted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sped	cc
16	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disguised	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 sped	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sped	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 handed	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
23	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 girl	compound
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 handed	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 handed	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 handed	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 handed	aux:pass
28	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 place	acl
29	over	over	ADP	_	28 handed	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 handed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disguised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	disguise	past	king	king			as a ordinary messenger; next property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
2	mount	past	king not said here	a swift camel				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient
3	speed away	past	king not said here			the place	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
4	hand over	past · passive	king not said here	the slave girl	king			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination

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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