The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 37

He noticed, with amazement, that as he walked through the streets the guards drew themselves up in line, and saluted him, and the drummers played the royal march; but he was still more bewildered when several servants in livery ran up to him and told him that the princess was sure something terrible had befallen him, and had made herself ill with weeping.

Who acts: Knight, guards, drummers, several servants, princess · What happens: notice, walk, draw up, salute, play, bewilder · To what, where: amazement, guards, streets, Knight, royal march, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, guards, drummers, several servants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 amazement	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 amazement	case
5	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 walked	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 walked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amazement	acl:relcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 streets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 streets	det
13	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drew	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	parataxis
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 drew	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 drew	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 line	case
20	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saluted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saluted	cc
23	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saluted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 played	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 played	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drummers	det
28	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 played	nsubj
29	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saluted	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 march	det
31	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 march	amod
32	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 played	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 bewildered	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 bewildered	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bewildered	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bewildered	aux
37	still	still	ADV	_	39 bewildered	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 bewildered	advmod
39	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 noticed	conj
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 ran	advmod
41	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 servants	amod
42	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 ran	nsubj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 livery	case
44	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 servants	nmod
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bewildered	advcl
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 ran	compound:prt
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ran	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 told	cc
50	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 told	iobj
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 sure	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 princess	det
54	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sure	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 sure	cop
56	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 told	ccomp
57	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	60 befallen	nsubj:pass
58	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 something	amod
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 befallen	aux
60	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 sure	ccomp
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 befallen	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 made	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 made	cc
64	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 made	aux
65	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 noticed	parataxis
66	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	65 made	obj
67	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 made	xcomp
68	with	with	ADP	_	69 weeping	case
69	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 ill	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Knight	amazement					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer amazement=Stimulus
2	walk	past	Knight	amazement					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw up	past	the guards	guards = guard		the streets		in line	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in line=Destination
4	salute	past	the guards not said here	Knight					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	play	past	the drummers	the royal march					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Theme
6	bewilder	past · passive	Knight				still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	run up	past	several servants in livery		Knight				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
8	tell speech: assert	past	Knight not said here		Knight				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	is	past	the princess					sure property	tree rules
10	befall	past · perfect · passive		something					tree rules
11	make	past · perfect		princess				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product

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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