The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 15

Little did he guess that Geirald had done all he could to persuade Rosald to steal secretly out of the castle during the night, “for,” said he, “I don’t believe they are pages at all, but well-proved knights, and how can we, so young and untried, stand up against them?”

Who acts: king, Geirald, champions · What happens: guess, do, persuade, steal, say, not believe · To what, where: all, Rosald, castle, pages, knights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Geirald, champions), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	ccomp
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
6	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 persuade	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 done	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 persuade	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 persuade	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 persuade	mark
13	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guess	parataxis
14	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 persuade	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 steal	mark
16	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuade	advcl
17	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	16 steal	advmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 castle	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 castle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 steal	obl
22	during	during	ADP	_	24 night	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 night	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 steal	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 for	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 for	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 believe	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 believe	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 believe	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 believe	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 believe	advmod
37	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pages	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 pages	cop
40	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 believe	ccomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 believe	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 proved	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 proved	cc
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 proved	advmod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 well	punct
47	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 believe	parataxis
48	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 proved	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 can	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 can	cc
51	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 can	advmod
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 proved	conj
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 can	nsubj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 young	punct
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 young	advmod
56	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	parataxis
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 untried	cc
58	untried	untried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 young	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 stand	punct
60	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guess	conj
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 stand	compound:prt
62	against	against	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 stand	obl
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past · do-support	king					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	Geirald	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	persuade	could	king	Rosald				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosald=Patient
4	steal	to-infinitive	king not said here		the castle	night	secretly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out castle=Location
5	say speech: ask	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	king		all			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a in a quote	present	champions = champion	pages				tree rules
8	prove in a quote	participle		knights			well property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme
9	stand up in a quote	infinitive	king not said here				against champions = champion	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=Location

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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