The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 121

For a time the king stood where he was, horror-stricken at what he had heard; but, being of a hopeful nature, he began at once to invent plans to save the prince from the dreadful doom that awaited him.

Who acts: king, dreadful doom · What happens: stand, be, hear, begin, invent, save · To what, where: hopeful nature, plans, prince, dreadful doom, king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, dreadful doom), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 stricken	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stricken	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stricken	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stricken	punct
11	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stricken	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 horror	punct
13	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stricken	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 nature	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 nature	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nature	punct
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 nature	cop
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 nature	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nature	det
25	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nature	amod
26	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nature	acl:relcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 began	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 invent	mark
33	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
34	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 invent	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 save	mark
36	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 invent	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 prince	det
38	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 save	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	42 doom	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 doom	det
41	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 doom	amod
42	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 save	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 awaited	nsubj
44	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 doom	acl:relcl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 awaited	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the king			time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	king				stricken property	tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	king					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	gerund					of a hopeful nature	tree rules
5	begin	past	king	a hopeful nature not said here				tree rules
6	invent	to-infinitive	king not said here	plans				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
7	save	to-infinitive	king not said here	the prince	the dreadful doom			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prince=Theme from doom=Source
8	await	past	the dreadful doom	king				tree rules

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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