The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

After the first outburst of wailing, however, he took heart and hurried off to see for himself the scene of this strange adventure, thinking, as people will in sorrow, that there might be some mistake after all.

Who acts: king, mistake · What happens: take, hurry off, see, think, be · To what, where: heart, scene · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, mistake), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 outburst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outburst	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 outburst	amod
4	outburst	outburst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wailing	case
6	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outburst	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 outburst	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hurried	cc
14	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 hurried	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hurried	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 see	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 scene	det
21	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 adventure	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 adventure	det
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 adventure	amod
25	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scene	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thinking	punct
27	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 see	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sorrow	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 sorrow	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sorrow	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sorrow	aux
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 sorrow	case
33	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 be	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 be	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 be	expl
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 be	aux
38	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	parataxis
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 mistake	det
40	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 be	nsubj
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 mistake	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	king	heart		after the first outburst of wailing	as sorrow; however property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent heart=Theme as sorrow=Attribute
2	hurry off	past	king not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	king not said here	the scene of this strange adventure			for king	tree rules
4	think speech: other	gerund						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	might	some mistake after all		there			vn exist-47.1 «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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