The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 92

It was not long before Denis began to agree with them, and as he always liked to be master wherever he went, he became afraid of Tephany’s sharp tongue, and instead of laughing as before when she made fun of other people he grew red and uncomfortable, thinking that his turn would come next.

Who acts: cat, Denis, Tephany, turn · What happens: not be, begin, agree, like, be, go · To what, where: master, fun, other people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Denis, Tephany, turn), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 began	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
6	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 agree	mark
9	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 agree	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 liked	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 liked	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 liked	advmod
17	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 became	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 master	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 master	cop
20	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 liked	obj
21	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	23 went	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 liked	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 liked	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 tongue	case
29	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 tongue	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Tephany	case
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tongue	amod
32	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 afraid	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 made	cc
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 laughing	mark
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 made	advcl
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 before	advmod
39	before	before	ADV	_	37 laughing	advmod
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 made	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
43	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 people	case
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fun	nmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 grew	nsubj
48	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 people	acl:relcl
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 grew	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 uncomfortable	cc
51	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 red	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 thinking	punct
53	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 made	advcl
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 come	mark
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 turn	nmod:poss
56	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 come	aux
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 thinking	ccomp
59	next	next	ADV	_	58 come	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	cat		long property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Denis			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	Denis not said here		with jokes = joke	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
4	like	past	Denis		always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	to-infinitive		master		tree rules
6	go	past	Denis		wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	past	Denis		afraid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	laugh	gerund	Tephany not said here		before property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	make	past	Tephany	fun of other people		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
10	grow	past	Denis	other people not said here	red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme
11	think speech: other	gerund	Tephany not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
12	come	would	Denis's turn		next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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