The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 28

“What are you doing?” asked the king at last, and the hermit replied that he was reading the fates of men; every one’s fate, he said, was settled from the beginning, and, whatever it were, there was no escape from it.

Who acts: you, king, hermit, fate, beginning, escape · What happens: do, ask, reply, read, say, settle · To what, where: last, fates, beginning, whatever, men · 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 (you, king, hermit, fate), 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	_	5 doing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 asked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 replied	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hermit	det
16	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 reading	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reading	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 reading	aux
21	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 replied	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fates	det
23	fates	fate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reading	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 men	case
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fates	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fate	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 one	case
30	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fate	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 settled	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 settled	aux:pass
36	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 said	ccomp
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 beginning	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beginning	det
39	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 settled	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 whatever	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 whatever	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 whatever	punct
43	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 said	nsubj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 whatever	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 whatever	cop
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 was	punct
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 was	expl
48	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 escape	det
50	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 was	nsubj
51	from	from	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 escape	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	the king		last		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	the hermit				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	past · progressive	hermit	the fates of men			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	every one's fate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	settle	past · passive				from the beginning	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»
7	is a	past	beginning	whatever			tree rules
8	be	past	no escape from beginning		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fate			men			nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient
10	fate		every one				nom fate «event 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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