The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 86

The queen feared that some ill would come of it, and implored him to stay at home, but he told her that nobody could do his work for him, and the next morning the sails were spread, and the king started on his voyage.

Who acts: queen, ill, king, nobody · What happens: fear, come, implore, stay, tell, do · To what, where: king, home, queen, work, next morning, voyage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, ill, king, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 ill	det
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 come	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 implored	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 implored	cc
13	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 implored	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 implored	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 do	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 work	nmod:poss
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spread	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spread	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 morning	det
35	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 morning	amod
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spread	nsubj:pass
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sails	det
38	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spread	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 spread	aux:pass
40	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 told	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 started	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 started	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 started	nsubj
45	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 voyage	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 voyage	nmod:poss
48	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 started	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the queen					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	would	some ill				of group	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
3	implore	past	the queen not said here	king				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stay	to-infinitive	the queen not said here			home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	tell speech: assert	past	king		queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	could	nobody	king's work			for king	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	spread	past · passive		the next morning				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
8	start	past	the king			king's voyage		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	work		king					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
10	voyage		king					nom voyage «act 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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