The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 187

In fact, the more he considered the matter, the more he felt that he would be wise to put a good face on it, and to let people suppose that he had really brought about the marriage of his own free will.

Who acts: king, people · What happens: consider, feel, be, put, let, suppose · To what, where: matter, fact, good face, face, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 more	det
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 considered	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 considered	nsubj
7	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 more	det
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 felt	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 considered	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wise	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wise	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wise	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	cop
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	csubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 let	mark
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 considered	conj
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 let	obj
32	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 brought	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	aux
36	really	really	ADV	_	37 brought	advmod
37	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 suppose	ccomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 marriage	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 marriage	det
40	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 will	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 will	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 free	amod
44	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 will	amod
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 marriage	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	past	king	the matter	fact		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute
2	feel	past	king				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	would	king			wise property	tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive		a good face	face		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme on it=Destination
5	let	to-infinitive	king not said here	people			tree rules
6	suppose	infinitive	people not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	bring	past · perfect	king			about the marriage	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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