The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 18
Rosald was much grieved when he heard these words, but he knew that it was useless attempting to persuade Geirald, and turned his thoughts to forming some plan to prevent this disgraceful flight.
Who acts: Rosald, company · What happens: grieve, hear, know, be, attempt, persuade · To what, where: Rosald, words, Geirald, thoughts, plan, disgraceful flight · 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 (Rosald, company), 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 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | aux:pass |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 grieved | advmod |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | advcl |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 useless | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 useless | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 useless | cop |
| 17 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 useless | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 persuade | mark |
| 20 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attempting | xcomp |
| 21 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 persuade | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 turned | cc |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 turned | obj |
| 27 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 28 forming | mark |
| 28 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 turned | advcl |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 plan | det |
| 30 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forming | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 prevent | mark |
| 32 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 plan | acl |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 flight | det |
| 34 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flight | amod |
| 35 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prevent | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | Rosald | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Rosald | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Rosald | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | company | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | attempt | gerund | company not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | company not said here | Geirald | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geirald=Patient | ||||
| 7 | turn | past | Rosald not said here | Rosald's thoughts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 8 | form | gerund | Rosald not said here | some plan | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||||
| 9 | prevent | to-infinitive | Rosald not said here | this disgraceful flight | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer flight=Theme | ||||
| 10 | think | Rosald | nom thought «cognition 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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