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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 130

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So Nur Mahomed handed over his horse to an attendant, and wandered down into the lovely gardens he had seen from the road, and sat down in the shade to rest himself.

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**Who acts:** Nur · **What happens:** hand, wander down, see, sit down, rest · **To what, where:** attendant, lovely gardens, road, shade, 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:pg3282:33:130
# text = So Nur Mahomed handed over his horse to an attendant, and wandered down into the lovely gardens he had seen from the road, and sat down in the shade to rest himself.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past | Nur |  |  | a attendant |  | over Nur's horse | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to attendant=Destination |
| 2 | **wander down** | past | Nur *not said here* |  |  | the lovely gardens |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | Nur | the lovely gardens *not said here* |  | the road |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | Nur *not said here* |  |  | the shade |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Nur *not said here* | Nur |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |

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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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