The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 77

However, just as he was going to pronounce some very heavy sentence, there was a stir in the court, and up came Nur Mahomed’s old mother, weeping and lamenting, and begging to be heard.

Who acts: pedlar, stir · What happens: go, pronounce, be, come, weep, lament · To what, where: heavy sentence, old mother

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 (pedlar, stir), 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	However	however	ADV	_	16 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 was	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pronounce	mark
9	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 sentence	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 heavy	advmod
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sentence	amod
13	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pronounce	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stir	det
18	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 court	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 court	det
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stir	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
24	up	up	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 was	conj
26	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mother	nmod:poss
27	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Nur	flat
28	’s	's	PART	_	26 Nur	case
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mother	amod
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weeping	punct
32	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lamenting	cc
34	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 weeping	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 begging	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 begging	cc
37	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 weeping	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	40 heard	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 heard	aux:pass
40	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 begging	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	pedlar				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pronounce	to-infinitive	pedlar not said here	some heavy sentence			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
3	be	past	a stir in the court		there	however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	a stir in the court not said here	Nur's old mother			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme
5	weep	gerund	a stir in the court not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lament	gerund	a stir in the court not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	beg speech: request	gerund	a stir in the court not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a stir in the court not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.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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