The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 83

It is easy to guess how, as the story came out, the king looked blacker and blacker, and more and more grim, until at last he was half fainting with rage and astonishment.

Who acts: story, king · What happens: be, guess, come out, look, faint · To what, where: last

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 (story, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easy	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guess	mark
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 guess	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	parataxis
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
17	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 looked	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blacker	cc
19	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 blacker	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grim	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grim	cc
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 grim	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grim	cc
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 grim	advmod
25	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 easy	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 half	punct
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 half	mark
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 half	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 half	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 half	cop
32	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 grim	conj
33	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 half	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 rage	case
35	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fainting	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 astonishment	cc
37	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rage	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			easy property	tree rules
2	guess	to-infinitive				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come out	past	the story		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	look	past	the king		black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	be					tree rules
6	is	past	king	last	half property	tree rules
7	faint	gerund	king not said here		with rage and astonishment	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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