The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 40
But instead of sleeping he only lay awake and thought of the hermit’s prophecy; and the more he thought of it the angrier he felt, until he gnashed his teeth and declared that it should never, never come true.
Who acts: king · What happens: sleep, lie, think, feel, gnash, declare · To what, where: teeth · 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 sleeping | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 awake | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prophecy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hermit | det |
| 13 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prophecy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 hermit | case |
| 15 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thought | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 more | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 thought | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 angrier | det |
| 25 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 angrier | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gnashed | punct |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 gnashed | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gnashed | nsubj |
| 31 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | parataxis |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 gnashed | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 declared | cc |
| 35 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gnashed | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 should | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 should | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 declared | advcl |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 should | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 come | punct |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 come | advmod |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 gnashed | conj |
| 43 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 come | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | king not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | king | awake property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | participle | king not said here | of the hermit's prophecy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | king | of prophecy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | king | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | gnash | past | king | king's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 7 | declare speech: other | past | king not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not come | infinitive | king not said here | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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