The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 16

He remembered quite well that the right-hand way was short and dangerous, but he bethought himself too that whatever was written on his forehead would happen, and took the forbidden road.

Who acts: prince, hand way, forehead · What happens: remember, be, bethink, write, happen, take · To what, where: prince, whatever, forbidden road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, hand way, forehead), 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 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 short	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hand	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	compound
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 short	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 short	cop
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dangerous	cc
14	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 short	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bethought	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bethought	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bethought	nsubj
18	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bethought	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	18 bethought	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 written	mark
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 written	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 written	aux:pass
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bethought	advcl
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 happen	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 forehead	nmod:poss
27	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happen	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 happen	aux
29	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 written	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 road	det
34	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 road	amod
35	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	prince		well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the hand way		short property	tree rules
3	be		the hand way not said here			tree rules
4	bethink	past	prince	prince		tree rules
5	write	past · passive		whatever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	happen	would	prince's forehead			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	past	prince not said here	the forbidden road		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
8	forbid	participle				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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