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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 126

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The weather was very hot; but Nur Mahomed thought that the sooner his precious letter was delivered the better; so that, by dint of riding most of each night and resting only in the hottest part of the day, he found himself, by noon on the third day, approaching the town which was his final destination.

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**Who acts:** weather, Nur, dint, town · **What happens:** be, think, deliver, ride, rest, find · **To what, where:** precious letter, most, hottest part, Nur, town, final destination

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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 (weather, Nur, dint, town), 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:pg3282:33:126
# text = The weather was very hot; but Nur Mahomed thought that the sooner his precious letter was delivered the better; so that, by dint of riding most of each night and resting only in the hottest part of the day, he found himself, by noon on the third day, approaching the town which was his final destination.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dint	dint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	conj	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
46	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	53	amod	_	_
53	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Nur |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | Nur's precious letter |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary good=Patient |
| 4 | **ride** | gerund | dint *not said here* | most of each night |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | gerund | dint *not said here* |  |  | the hottest part of the day |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 6 | **find** | past | Nur | Nur |  |  | noon |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 7 | **approach** | gerund | Nur *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past | the town | Nur's final destination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **letter** |  | Nur |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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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