The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 76

In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree that he made up his mind that all that happened was fate, and that escape was impossible; but he hoped devoutly some turn of fortune would reveal to him a way out of the difficulties which he had, with the best intentions, drawn upon himself.

Who acts: despair, king, that, escape, turn · What happens: possess, make up, happen, be, hope, reveal · To what, where: king, fact, mind, fate, way, difficulties · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, king, that, escape), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fact	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
9	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	nsubj
10	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 possessed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 degree	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 degree	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 degree	det
15	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 possessed	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 possessed	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 made	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 happened	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 happened	det:predet
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	advcl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fate	cop
27	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happened	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 impossible	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 impossible	cc
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 escape	det
31	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 impossible	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 impossible	cop
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 hoped	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 hoped	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hoped	nsubj
37	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 possessed	conj
38	devoutly	devoutly	ADV	_	37 hoped	advmod
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 turn	det
40	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reveal	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 fortune	case
42	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turn	nmod
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 reveal	aux
44	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hoped	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 reveal	obl
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 way	det
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reveal	obl:unmarked
49	out	out	ADP	_	52 difficulties	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 difficulties	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 difficulties	det
52	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 reveal	obl
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 had	obj
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 had	nsubj
55	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 difficulties	acl:relcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 intentions	punct
57	with	with	ADP	_	60 intentions	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 intentions	det
59	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 intentions	amod
60	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 had	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 drawn	punct
62	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 intentions	acl
63	upon	upon	ADP	_	64 himself	case
64	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	62 drawn	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	past	despair	king		fact and a few days	to such degree	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	make up	past	king	king's mind				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	happen	past	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		fate				tree rules
5	is	past	that escape				impossible property	tree rules
6	hope	past	king				devoutly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	reveal	would	some turn of fortune	a way	king	the difficulties		vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
8	have	past	king	the difficulties				tree rules
9	draw	participle		the best intentions not said here			upon king	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	mind		king					nom mind «cognition 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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