The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 18

He would have liked to go back by the way ho had come, but courage forbade, and he said, “What has been preordained from eternity will happen to me,” and went on towards the castle.

Who acts: prince, ho, courage · What happens: like, go back, come, forbid, say, preordain · To what, where: way, eternity, prince, castle · 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, ho, courage), 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 liked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 way	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forbade	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 forbade	cc
16	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forbade	nsubj
17	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forbade	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 preordained	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 preordained	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 preordained	obj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 preordained	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 preordained	aux:pass
27	preordained	preordain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 happen	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 eternity	case
29	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 preordained	obl
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 happen	aux
31	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 happen	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happen	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 happen	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forbade	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 castle	case
39	towards	towards	ADP	_	41 castle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 castle	det
41	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect	prince						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here					by the way	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	come	past · perfect	ho	the way not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	forbid	past	courage						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	say speech: assert	past	prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	preordain in a quote	present · perfect · passive					from eternity		tree rules
7	happen in a quote	future			prince				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	courage not said here			the castle			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on castle=Location

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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