The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 75

When Asmund saw all these wild doings from his tree he felt he could no longer keep silence.

Who acts: Asmund, Ring · What happens: see, feel, keep · To what, where: wild doings, tree, silence

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asmund, Ring), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	advcl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 doings	det:predet
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 doings	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doings	amod
7	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tree	nmod:poss
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 keep	advmod
17	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	ccomp
18	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Asmund	all wild doings	Ring's tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doing=Stimulus
2	feel	past	Ring				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	keep	could	Ring	silence		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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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