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title: Nur Mahomed, who had been lazily watching him, stood still for a mom… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nur Mahomed, who had been lazily watching him, stood still for a moment, then he came back whistling softly. Who acts: Nur. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 111

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Nur Mahomed, who had been lazily watching him, stood still for a moment, then he came back whistling softly.

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**Who acts:** Nur · **What happens:** watch, stand, come back, whistle · **To what, where:** Nur

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:33:111
# text = Nur Mahomed, who had been lazily watching him, stood still for a moment, then he came back whistling softly.
1	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
7	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | Nur | Nur |  |  |  | lazily *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Nur |  |  |  | still; moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come back** | past | Nur |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **whistle** | gerund | Nur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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