The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 113

He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through bazaars and lanes and squares, in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz.

Who acts: prince, Mihr afruz · What happens: go in, wander, know, ask, riddle · To what, where: quarters, information · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Mihr afruz), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wandered	cc
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 quarters	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 quarters	det
9	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bazaars	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bazaars	cc
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 bazaars	case
13	bazaars	bazaar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lanes	cc
15	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bazaars	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 squares	cc
17	squares	square	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bazaars	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 least	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 least	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 least	det
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 bazaars	appos
22	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 least	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 ask	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ask	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	aux
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knowing	ccomp
28	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 riddle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 riddle	det
31	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 information	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 afruz	case
33	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 afruz	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Mihr	punct
35	afruz	afruz	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 riddle	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past	prince				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander	past	prince not said here		all quarters	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through quarter=Trajectory
3	know	gerund	prince not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	could	prince	information		about the riddle of Mihr afruz	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent information=Recipient about riddle=Topic
5	riddle		Mihr afruz				nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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