--- title: Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air. Who acts: great porticoes, guards, palace, mos --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/) / 15 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 15 Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air. **Who acts:** great porticoes, guards, palace, mossy walks, fountains, flowers · **What happens:** be, hurry, pace, fro, salute, draw · **To what, where:** servants, guards, palace, grassy lawns, air This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great porticoes, guards, palace, mossy walks), 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:pg3282:35:15 # text = Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air. 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 porticoes portico NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 verandahs verandah NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 occupied occupied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hurrying hurry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 paced pace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 14 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 saluted salute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 respectfully respectfully ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 near near ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 along along ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 mossy mossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 through through SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 sweeping sweep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 33 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lawns lawn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 36 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 scented scent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | spot's great porticoes and verandahs | | | | | occupied *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurry** | gerund | spot's great porticoes and verandahs *not said here* | servants | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Agent | | 3 | **pace** | participle | | guards *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fro** | infinitive | guards | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **salute** | past | guards *not said here* | palace | | | | respectfully *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 6 | **draw** | past | palace | | | | | along mossy walks; near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sweep** | gerund | mossy walks *not said here* | grassy lawns | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lawn=Trajectory | | 8 | **play** | past · progressive | fountains | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **scent** | past | flowers | the air | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Destination | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/16/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/)