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title: One day, soon after Nur Mahomed had entered the bodyguard, he was se… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, soon after Nur Mahomed had entered the bodyguard, he was selected to be one of the soldiers told off to escort the king through the city. 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 ev
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 97

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One day, soon after Nur Mahomed had entered the bodyguard, he was selected to be one of the soldiers told off to escort the king through the city.

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**What happens:** enter, select, be, tell off, escort · **To what, where:** Nur, one, king, city

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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: 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:pg3282:33:97
# text = One day, soon after Nur Mahomed had entered the bodyguard, he was selected to be one of the soldiers told off to escort the king through the city.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | Nur |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **select** | past · passive |  | Nur |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the soldiers | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **escort** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the king |  | the city |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme through city=Destination |

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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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