The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 75
Of course Nur Mahomed never guessed that the supposed pedlar happened to have been the king himself, although nobody knew it.
Who acts: supposed pedlar, nobody · What happens: not guess, suppose, happen, be, know · To what, where: king, course · 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 (supposed pedlar, nobody), 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 | _ | 3 Nur | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 guessed | obl |
| 4 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Nur | flat |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 guessed | advmod |
| 6 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 happened | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pedlar | det |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pedlar | amod |
| 10 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 guessed | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 king | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 king | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 king | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happened | obl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 19 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 21 knew | mark |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guess | past | of Nur | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past | the supposed pedlar | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the king | king nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | nobody | course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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