The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 88
He could not bring himself to tell the truth about what had happened, nor did he expect that the king would believe it.
Who acts: brother, truth, king · What happens: not bring, tell, happen, expect, believe · To what, where: brother, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, truth, king), 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 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 13 happened | mark |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 truth | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 expect | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 expect | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 expect | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 expect | nsubj |
| 18 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 believe | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | aux |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expect | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | could | brother | brother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | brother not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | the truth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | expect | past · do-support | brother | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | believe | would | the king | truth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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