The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 124

A meeting was arranged between Farrukhfal and Almas, and then the amir took him to the king’s presence and introduced him as a stranger and traveller who had come from afar to sit in the shadow of King Sinaubar.

Who acts: amir, traveller · What happens: arrange, take, introduce, come, sit, shadow · To what, where: meeting, prince, presence, afar, shadow, King Sinaubar

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 (amir, traveller), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meeting	det
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arranged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arranged	aux:pass
4	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 Farrukhfal	case
6	Farrukhfal	Farrukhfal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arranged	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Almas	cc
8	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Farrukhfal	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 took	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 amir	det
13	amir	amir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arranged	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 presence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 presence	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 introduced	cc
22	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 introduced	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 stranger	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stranger	det
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 introduced	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 traveller	cc
28	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stranger	conj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 traveller	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 afar	case
33	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sit	mark
35	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 shadow	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shadow	det
38	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sit	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Sinaubar	case
40	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Sinaubar	compound
41	Sinaubar	Sinaubar	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 shadow	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · passive		a meeting			between Farrukhfal and Almas	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between farrukhfal=Destination
2	take	past	the amir	prince	the king's presence	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to presence=Destination
3	introduce	past	the amir not said here	prince			as a stranger and traveller	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	come	past · perfect	traveller		afar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location
5	sit	to-infinitive	traveller not said here		the shadow of King Sinaubar			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location
6	shadow			King Sinaubar				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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