The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 64

One day, when the boy, whom the old woman had named Nur Mahomed, was about seventeen years old, he was coming from his day’s work in the fields, when he saw a strange donkey eating the cabbages in the garden which surround their little cottage.

Who acts: One day, baby, strange donkey, garden, day · What happens: name, be, come, see, eat, surround · To what, where: old woman, work, strange donkey, cabbages, garden, little cottage

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 (One day, baby, strange donkey, garden), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 old	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 boy	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 named	punct
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 named	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 named	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 named	aux
13	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 boy	acl:relcl
14	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 named	xcomp
15	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Nur	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 seventeen	advmod
19	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 old	obl:unmarked
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 coming	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 coming	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 coming	aux
25	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 old	advcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 work	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 day	nmod:poss
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 work	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 day	case
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 coming	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 fields	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fields	det
33	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 coming	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saw	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 saw	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 saw	nsubj
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 old	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 donkey	det
39	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 donkey	amod
40	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obj
41	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 saw	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 cabbages	det
43	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 eating	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 garden	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 garden	det
46	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eating	obl
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 surround	nsubj
48	surround	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 garden	acl:relcl
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 cottage	nmod:poss
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cottage	amod
51	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 surround	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · perfect · passive		the old woman				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme whom=Attribute
2	is	past	One day			year	old property	tree rules
3	come	past · progressive	baby		baby's day's work		in the fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial_Location
4	see	past	baby	a strange donkey				tree rules
5	eat	gerund	a strange donkey not said here	the cabbages	the garden			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
6	surround	present	the garden	woman's little cottage				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Co-Theme
7	work		baby's day					nom work «act intransitive»: 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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