The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 94

And as he was also modest and generous, he became a favourite with his officers and his comrades.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: be, become · To what, where: favourite

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 modest	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 modest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 modest	cop
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 modest	advmod
6	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 generous	cc
8	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 modest	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 modest	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 favourite	det
13	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 officers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 officers	nmod:poss
16	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 favourite	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 comrades	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 comrades	nmod:poss
19	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 officers	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nur		modest property	tree rules
2	be		Nur not said here			tree rules
3	become	past	Nur	a favourite with Nur's officers and Nur's comrades		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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