The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 36

The king, who was braver than they, and felt it needful to set them a good example besides, had never left his seat, and when at a new command of the princess the bear once more turned into a man, he was silent from astonishment, and a suspicion of the truth began to dawn on him.

Who acts: king, man, suspicion · What happens: be, feel, set, beside, not leave, turn · To what, where: courage, king, seat, bear, astonishment, dawn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man, suspicion), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 besides	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 braver	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 braver	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 braver	cop
6	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 king	acl:relcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 they	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 braver	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 braver	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	obj
13	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 set	mark
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 needful	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 example	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 example	amod
19	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obj
20	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 left	advmod
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 besides	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 seat	nmod:poss
26	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 began	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 began	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 command	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 command	det
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 command	amod
33	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 began	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 princess	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 princess	det
36	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 command	nmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bear	det
38	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 princess	conj
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 turned	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 turned	advmod
41	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 bear	acl
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 man	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 turned	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 silent	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 silent	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 silent	cop
48	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bear	parataxis
49	from	from	ADP	_	50 astonishment	case
50	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 silent	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 began	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 began	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 suspicion	det
54	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 began	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 truth	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 truth	det
57	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 suspicion	nmod
58	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 besides	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 dawn	mark
60	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 began	xcomp
61	on	on	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 dawn	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			than king; brave property	tree rules
2	feel	past	the king not said here	courage		needful property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	set	to-infinitive	the king not said here	king			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme example=Destination
4	beside	present	the king				tree rules
5	not leave	past · perfect	the king not said here	man's seat			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
6	turn	participle		the bear not said here		into a man result; once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result
7	is	past	man		astonishment	silent property	tree rules
8	begin	past	a suspicion of the truth	dawn on man	a new command of the princess and the bear		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	command			the princess and the bear			nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	suspect			the truth			nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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