The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 38

The king was wild with anger at hearing these words, but he was also very tired; so he only laughed, and answered that he hoped there would be a way out of THAT fate anyhow.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, hear, laugh, answer, hope · To what, where: words, way, fate · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	cop
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 anger	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wild	obl
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	8 hearing	mark
8	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wild	advcl
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hearing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tired	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 tired	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tired	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tired	cop
15	also	also	ADV	_	17 tired	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 tired	advmod
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wild	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 laughed	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 laughed	advmod
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wild	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 answered	cc
25	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hoped	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hoped	nsubj
28	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 answered	ccomp
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 hoped	advmod
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 way	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hoped	ccomp
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 fate	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fate	case
36	THAT	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 fate	det
37	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	nmod
38	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	33 way	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			with anger; wild property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	the king not said here	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	is	past	king			tired property	tree rules
4	laugh	past	king				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	king not said here				tree rules
6	hope	past	king		there		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is a	would		a way	that fate	anyhow property	tree rules

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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