--- title: Not a soul was to be seen anywhere; and Nur Mahomed, stiff, dry, thi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Not a soul was to be seen anywhere; and Nur Mahomed, stiff, dry, thirsty, and tired, looked longingly over the wall into the gardens, and marked the fountains, the green grass, the shady apricot orchards, and giant mulberry trees, and wished he were there. Who acts: Nur. 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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. **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:pg3282:33:127 # text = Not a soul was to be seen anywhere; and Nur Mahomed, stiff, dry, thirsty, and tired, looked longingly over the wall into the gardens, and marked the fountains, the green grass, the shady apricot orchards, and giant mulberry trees, and wished he were there. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Nur Nur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 12 Mahomed Mahomed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 23 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 longingly longingly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 apricot apricot NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 orchards orchard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 mulberry mulberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 55 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | past · passive | | a soul | | | | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | past | Nur | | | | | into the gardens; over the wall; longingly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wall=Theme | | 3 | **mark** | past | Nur *not said here* | the fountains | | | | giant mulberry trees *obl* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fountain=Destination | | 4 | **wish** | past | Nur *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **is** | past | Nur | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/128/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)