The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 15

Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air.

Who acts: great porticoes, guards, palace, mossy walks, fountains, flowers · What happens: be, hurry, pace, fro, salute, draw · To what, where: servants, guards, palace, grassy lawns, air

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great porticoes, guards, palace, mossy walks), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 porticoes	nmod:poss
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 porticoes	amod
3	porticoes	portico	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 occupied	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 verandahs	cc
5	verandahs	verandah	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 porticoes	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 occupied	cop
7	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 hurrying	mark
9	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 occupied	advcl
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurrying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fro	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fro	cc
13	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fro	nsubj
14	paced	pace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 guards	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 paced	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fro	cc
17	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 occupied	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saluted	cc
19	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fro	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saluted	obj
21	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	19 saluted	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 drew	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saluted	advcl
25	near	near	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walks	punct
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 walks	case
28	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 walks	amod
29	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drew	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sweeping	cc
31	through	through	SCONJ	_	32 sweeping	mark
32	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 walks	acl
33	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lawns	amod
34	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sweeping	obj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 playing	advmod
36	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 playing	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 playing	aux
38	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 sweeping	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 scented	cc
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 scented	nsubj
41	scented	scent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sweeping	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 scented	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 occupied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	spot's great porticoes and verandahs		occupied property	tree rules
2	hurry	gerund	spot's great porticoes and verandahs not said here	servants		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Agent
3	pace	participle		guards not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	guards			tree rules
5	salute	past	guards not said here	palace	respectfully property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	draw	past	palace		along mossy walks; near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sweep	gerund	mossy walks not said here	grassy lawns		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lawn=Trajectory
8	play	past · progressive	fountains			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	scent	past	flowers	the air		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=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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