The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 97

One day, soon after Nur Mahomed had entered the bodyguard, he was selected to be one of the soldiers told off to escort the king through the city.

What happens: enter, select, be, tell off, escort · To what, where: Nur, one, king, city

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: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 Nur	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 Nur	case
6	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 entered	nsubj:pass
7	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nur	flat
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 entered	aux
9	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bodyguard	det
11	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 selected	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 selected	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 selected	aux:pass
15	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 entered	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 one	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 told	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 soldiers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soldiers	det
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 told	obl
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 selected	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 told	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	25 escort	mark
25	escort	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 escort	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 city	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 city	det
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 escort	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past · perfect · passive	Nur		day		tree rules
2	select	past · passive	Nur				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	one				tree rules
4	tell off speech: assert	past				of the soldiers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	escort not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king	the city			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme through city=Destination

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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