The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 9

However, he felt rather ashamed of his cowardice, as it was quite clear that his ball could support him, and on his third trial he got safely to the other side.

Who acts: sight, ball · What happens: feel, be, support, get, try · To what, where: sight, third trial

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, ball), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 ashamed	advmod
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cowardice	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cowardice	nmod:poss
9	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ashamed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clear	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 clear	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 clear	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 clear	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 clear	advmod
15	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ashamed	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 support	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ball	nmod:poss
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 support	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 support	aux
20	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 clear	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 support	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 got	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 trial	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trial	nmod:poss
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 trial	amod
27	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
30	safely	safely	ADV	_	29 got	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 side	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 side	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 side	amod
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	sight			ashamed, however property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	sight not said here			clear property	tree rules
3	support	could	sight's ball	sight			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	get	past	sight		sight's third trial	to the other side result; safely property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result
5	try		sight				nom trial «act 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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