The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 15

But he kept silence as to the fate that awaited the man who was without the crowsfoot and the trefoil, and Bernez thought that nothing but boldness and quickness were necessary.

Who acts: beggar, fate, man, Bernez, nothing · What happens: keep, await, be, think · To what, where: silence, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, fate, man, Bernez), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 kept	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
5	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 fate	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fate	det
8	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 awaited	nsubj
10	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fate	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awaited	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 crowsfoot	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crowsfoot	cop
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 crowsfoot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crowsfoot	det
17	crowsfoot	crowsfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trefoil	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trefoil	det
20	trefoil	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crowsfoot	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
23	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 necessary	mark
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 necessary	nsubj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 boldness	cc
28	boldness	boldness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 quickness	cc
30	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 necessary	cop
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	beggar	silence	as the fate	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
2	await	past	the fate	the man		tree rules
3	is	past	the man		without the crowsfoot and the trefoil	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Bernez			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	nothing		necessary property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/26/15/