The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 73

Of course they soon found out about the donkey eating Nur Mahomed’s cabbages, and about the young man’s hot words; but although the lad assured them that he had never said anything about murdering anyone, they replied they were ordered to arrest him, and bring him to take his trial before the king.

Who acts: men, donkey, lad, young man · What happens: find out, eat, assure, not say, murder, reply · To what, where: cabbages, men, anything, anyone, lad, trial · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, donkey, lad, young man), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 found	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 found	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 donkey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 donkey	acl
11	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cabbages	nmod:poss
12	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Nur	flat
13	’s	's	PART	_	11 Nur	case
14	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eating	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 words	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 words	cc
17	about	about	ADP	_	23 words	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 assured	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 assured	cc
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 assured	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lad	det
28	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 assured	nsubj
29	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 assured	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 said	advmod
35	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 assured	ccomp
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 said	obj
37	about	about	SCONJ	_	38 murdering	mark
38	murdering	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 anything	acl
39	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 murdering	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 replied	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 replied	nsubj
42	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	parataxis
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ordered	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 ordered	aux:pass
45	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 replied	ccomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 arrest	mark
47	arrest	arrest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 ordered	xcomp
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 arrest	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bring	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 bring	cc
51	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 bring	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 take	mark
54	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 bring	xcomp
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 trial	nmod:poss
56	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 take	obj
57	before	before	ADP	_	59 king	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 king	det
59	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 take	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	men = man			about the donkey; about the young man's hot words; soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about donkey=Topic
2	eat	gerund	the donkey not said here	Nur's cabbages			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
3	assure	past	the lad	men = man			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not say speech: assert	past · perfect	lad	anything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
5	murder	gerund		anyone			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
6	reply speech: assert	past	men = man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	order	past · passive		men = man			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
8	arrest not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	lad			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
9	bring	infinitive	men = man not said here	lad			tree rules
10	take	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	lad's trial	before the king		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trial=Theme before king=Destination
11	word		the young man				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
12	try		lad				nom trial «act 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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