The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 89

The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale.

Who acts: man, moment · What happens: be, feel, speak, become, have, grow · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 surprised	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 felt	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	conj
12	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	11 felt	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 particularly	fixed
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spoke	nsubj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moment	nmod
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	parataxis
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spoke	ccomp
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 certain	advmod
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 certain	advcl
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 had	obj
31	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 matter	amod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 something	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 matter	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 grew	cc
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spoke	conj
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 pale	advmod
40	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grew	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man			surprised property	tree rules
2	feel	past	man		evening	particularly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past	the moment man's wife				tree rules
4	become	past	man			certain property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	man	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	grow	past	the moment man's wife not said here			pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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