The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 53

By this time the king’s anger was dying away, and he began to consider what his people would think of him if he broke the promise he had publicly given.

Who acts: anger, king, people, promise · What happens: die away, begin, consider, think, break, give · To what, where: promise, king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, king, people, promise), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dying	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anger	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dying	aux
9	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 dying	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dying	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 consider	mark
16	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 think	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 people	nmod:poss
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 think	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 consider	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 think	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 broke	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 broke	nsubj
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 think	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 promise	det
28	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
31	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	32 given	advmod
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 promise	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die away	past · progressive	the king's anger		time	away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	begin	past	king				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	consider	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	think speech: other	would	king's people			of king	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
5	break a condition, not said to happen	past	king	the promise			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
6	give	past · perfect · passive	the promise not said here	king		publicly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	anger		the king				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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