The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 22

So he tried to soften the fox’s anger, saying that he had only spoken in joke, as he had known quite well that he was not really dead.

Who acts: fox · What happens: try, soften, say, speak, know, not be · To what, where: anger, joke, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 soften	mark
5	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anger	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 fox	case
9	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soften	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 soften	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 spoken	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoken	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 spoken	advmod
16	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 saying	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 joke	case
18	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 known	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 known	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 known	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 known	aux
23	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 spoken	conj
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 known	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dead	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dead	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dead	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 dead	advmod
30	really	really	ADV	_	31 dead	advmod
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 known	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	fox				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	soften not said to happen	to-infinitive	fox not said here	the fox's anger			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anger=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	fox not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect	fox		joke		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past · perfect · passive		fox		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	not is	past	fox			dead property	tree rules
7	anger		the fox				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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