The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 120

For three nights Alonzo kept his word, not because he believed in the Yara, for he thought that the tales about her were all nonsense, but because he could not bear the tears with which he knew that Julia would greet him, if he confessed that he had returned to the forest.

Who acts: Alonzo, Julia · What happens: keep, not believe, think, be, not bear, know · To what, where: word, Yara, tears, Alonzo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alonzo, Julia), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nights	nummod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
4	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believed	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 believed	advmod
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 believed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 believed	nsubj
12	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Yara	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Yara	det
15	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 believed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 believed	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 tales	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tales	det
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thought	ccomp
23	about	about	ADP	_	27 nonsense	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nonsense	nmod:poss
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nonsense	cop
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 nonsense	det
27	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bear	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 bear	cc
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 bear	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bear	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 bear	advmod
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tears	det
36	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bear	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 knew	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 knew	nsubj
40	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tears	acl:relcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 greet	mark
42	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 greet	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 greet	aux
44	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 knew	ccomp
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 greet	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 confessed	punct
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 confessed	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 confessed	nsubj
49	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bear	conj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 returned	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 returned	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 returned	aux
53	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 confessed	ccomp
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 forest	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 forest	det
56	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 returned	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Alonzo	Alonzo's word			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	not believe	past	Alonzo			the Yara			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	Alonzo						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past						about Yara's nonsense	tree rules
5	not bear	could	Alonzo	the tears					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
6	know	past	Alonzo					with the tears	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	greet speech: greet	would	Julia		Alonzo				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	confess a condition, not said to happen	past	Julia						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	return	past · perfect	Julia					to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result
10	word		Alonzo						nom word «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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