The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 39

He knew there was no escape from him now, though he did not doubt for one moment that Rosald would keep his compact loyally to the last.

Who acts: face, one moment · What happens: know, be, not doubt, keep · To what, where: escape, compact · 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 (face, one moment), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 escape	det
6	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 escape	nmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 knew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 doubt	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 doubt	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doubt	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 doubt	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 doubt	advmod
15	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 moment	nummod
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doubt	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 keep	nsubj
20	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 keep	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 moment	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 compact	nmod:poss
24	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	loyally	loyally	ADV	_	22 keep	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 last	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 last	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 loyally	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	face	no escape		now	from Geirald	tree rules
2	be	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not doubt	past · do-support	face			moment		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	keep	would	one moment	face's compact			loyally property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Theme

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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