--- title: However, just as he was going to pronounce some very heavy sentence,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, just as he was going to pronounce some very heavy sentence, there was a stir in the court, and up came Nur Mahomed’s old mother, weeping and lamenting, and begging to be heard. Who acts: pedlar, stir. 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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 (pedlar, stir), 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:pg3282:33:77 # text = However, just as he was going to pronounce some very heavy sentence, there was a stir in the court, and up came Nur Mahomed’s old mother, weeping and lamenting, and begging to be heard. 1 However however ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 pronounce pronounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 stir stir NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 Nur Nur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 27 Mahomed Mahomed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 lamenting lament VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | pedlar | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pronounce** | to-infinitive | pedlar *not said here* | some heavy sentence | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 3 | **be** | past | a stir in the court | | | there | | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | a stir in the court *not said here* | Nur's old mother | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme | | 5 | **weep** | gerund | a stir in the court *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lament** | gerund | a stir in the court *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | a stir in the court *not said here* | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a stir in the court *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/78/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)