The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 92

As a soldier Nur Mahomed seemed to be in luck.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: luck

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 (Nur), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 soldier	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl
4	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
5	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nur	flat
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 luck	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 luck	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 luck	case
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Nur					as a soldier	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Nur not said here			luck			tree rules

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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