The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 79

He wondered what kind of death the king would invent for him, and went through almost as much torture, as he lay awake nearly the whole of every night thinking over the situation, as he would have suffered if the king’s executioners were already setting to work upon his neck.

Who acts: turn, kind, executioners · What happens: wonder, invent, go through, lie, think, suffer · To what, where: situation · 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 (turn, kind, executioners), 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	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invent	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invent	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 invent	aux
10	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 invent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	conj
16	through	through	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 torture	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 torture	case
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 torture	amod
20	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	parataxis
25	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	xcomp
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 whole	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 whole	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whole	obl
32	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 lay	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 situation	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 situation	det
35	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thinking	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 suffered	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 suffered	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 suffered	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 suffered	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 suffered	aux
41	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 lay	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 setting	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 king	det
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 executioners	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 king	case
46	executioners	executioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 setting	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 setting	aux
48	already	already	ADV	_	49 setting	advmod
49	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 suffered	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 work	mark
51	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 setting	advcl
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 neck	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 neck	nmod:poss
54	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 work	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	turn			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	invent	would	what kind of death		for king	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
3	go through	past	turn not said here		as much torture; through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	turn		awake, whole property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	gerund	turn not said here	the situation		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	suffer	would · perfect	turn			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	set a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the king's executioners			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	work	to-infinitive	the king's executioners not said here		upon king's neck	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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