The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 119
He assured her that having overcome the temptation once the danger was now over; but she, knowing better than he did the magic of the Yara’s face and voice, did not fail to make him repeat his promise when he went away.
Who acts: Julia, danger, face · What happens: assure, have, be, know, do, not fail · To what, where: face, magic, Julia, promise
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Julia, danger, face), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assured | nsubj |
| 2 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assured | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 assured | advcl |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | ADP | _ | 8 temptation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temptation | det |
| 8 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obl |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 14 over | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 danger | det |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 over | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 over | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 over | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 having | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 knowing | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 knowing | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knowing | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knowing | punct |
| 19 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 assured | advcl |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 knowing | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 magic | det |
| 25 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Yara | det |
| 28 | Yara | Yara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Yara | case |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 magic | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 voice | cc |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 face | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fail | punct |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fail | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 fail | advmod |
| 36 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 assured | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fail | xcomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | obj |
| 40 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 make | xcomp |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 promise | nmod:poss |
| 42 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 repeat | obj |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 went | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 went | nsubj |
| 45 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 repeat | advcl |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 went | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | Julia | face | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Julia not said here | overcome the temptation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the danger | now | over property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | gerund | face | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | do | past | Julia | the magic of the Yara's face and voice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not fail | past · do-support | Julia not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | Julia not said here | Julia | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | repeat | infinitive | Julia not said here | Julia's promise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | go away | past | Julia | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | promise | Julia | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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 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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