The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 98

“I thought perhaps the pain would go off in a day or two; and, besides, I did not want to make you unhappy,” answered the man, who was by this time quite sure he had been suffering tortures, and had borne them like a hero.

Who acts: I, pain, man · What happens: think, go off, not want, make, answer, be · To what, where: you, tortures · 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 (I, pain, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pain	det
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 go	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 two	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 want	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 want	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	besides	besides	INTJ	_	23 want	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 besides	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 want	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 want	advmod
23	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 want	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 answered	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 time	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 time	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 time	cop
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 time	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	conj
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 sure	advmod
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 suffering	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 suffering	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 suffering	aux
44	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 sure	ccomp
45	tortures	torture	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 suffering	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 borne	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 borne	cc
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 borne	aux
49	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 borne	obj
51	like	like	ADP	_	53 hero	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 hero	det
53	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 borne	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go off in a quote	would	the pain		day	perhaps property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	not want in a quote	past · do-support	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
5	answer speech: assert	past	the man and this time				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the man and this time		by this time		tree rules
7	suffer	past · perfect · progressive	pain	tortures			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus
8	bear	past · perfect	I not said here	tortures = torture		like a hero	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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