The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 93

He was rather surprised, but much pleased, to find that he was always one of those chosen when any difficult or dangerous enterprise was afoot; and, although he had the narrowest escapes on some occasions, still, the very desperateness of the situations in which he found himself gave him special chances of displaying his courage.

Who acts: Nur, difficult enterprise, desperateness, special chances · What happens: be, find, choose, have, give, display · To what, where: one, narrowest escapes, occasions, Nur, desperateness, special chances · 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 (Nur, difficult enterprise, desperateness, special chances), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 surprised	advmod
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pleased	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 pleased	cc
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 pleased	advmod
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprised	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surprised	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 one	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 find	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 one	nmod
19	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 those	acl
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 afoot	mark
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 enterprise	det
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 enterprise	amod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 dangerous	cc
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 difficult	conj
25	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 afoot	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 afoot	cop
27	afoot	afoot	ADV	_	19 chosen	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 gave	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 gave	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 gave	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 escapes	det
35	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 escapes	amod
36	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 occasions	case
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 occasions	det
39	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 desperateness	punct
41	still	still	ADV	_	45 desperateness	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 still	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 desperateness	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 desperateness	advmod
45	desperateness	desperateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gave	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 situations	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 situations	det
48	situations	situation	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 desperateness	nmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 which	case
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 found	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 found	nsubj
52	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 desperateness	acl
53	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 found	obj
54	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 gave	iobj
56	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 chances	amod
57	chances	chance	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 gave	obj
58	of	of	SCONJ	_	59 displaying	mark
59	displaying	display	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 chances	acl
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 courage	nmod:poss
61	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 displaying	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nur				surprised property	tree rules
2	be		Nur not said here					tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Nur	one			of those; always property	tree rules
5	choose	participle						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	any difficult enterprise				afoot property	tree rules
7	have	past	Nur	the narrowest escapes		some occasions		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient
8	find	past	Nur	Nur		the desperateness of the situations		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
9	give	past	the desperateness of the situations	special chances	Nur			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chance=Theme
10	display	gerund	special chances not said here	Nur's courage				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=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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