The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 118
He could be silent as the grave, and prided himself on his obedience.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, pride, obey · To what, where: king, obedience
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 silent | cop |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 grave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prided | cc |
| 10 | prided | pride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 prided | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 obedience | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 obedience | nmod:poss |
| 14 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prided | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | king | as the grave; silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pride | past | king not said here | king | king's obedience | tree rules | |||
| 3 | obey | king | nom obedience «act transitive»: 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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