The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 93

But he was not considered a very swift runner, until an adventure with a deer added to his fame.

What happens: not consider, add · To what, where: person, adventure

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 considered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 considered	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 considered	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 considered	advmod
5	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 runner	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 swift	advmod
8	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 runner	amod
9	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 adventure	punct
11	until	until	ADP	_	13 adventure	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adventure	det
13	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 deer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deer	det
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 adventure	nmod
17	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adventure	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 fame	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fame	nmod:poss
20	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 added	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not consider	past · passive		person					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	add speech: assert	participle		a adventure with a deer not said here				to person's fame	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to fame=Co-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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