The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 30

He was not sure whether he dared tell what he had seen and heard, and besides he was also a little conceited because he had done what no other man had been able to do, or had had courage for.

Who acts: king, other man · What happens: not be, tell, see, hear, be, do · To what, where: courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (king, other man), 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 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 seen	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 conceited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 conceited	cc
17	besides	besides	ADP	_	23 conceited	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 conceited	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 conceited	cop
20	also	also	ADV	_	23 conceited	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 conceited	obl:unmarked
23	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sure	conj
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 conceited	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 done	obj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 man	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 able	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 what	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 had	aux
40	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sure	ccomp
41	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	41 courage	fixed
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	king		sure property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	hear	participle	king not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	king		a little obl:unmarked; conceited property	tree rules
6	do	past · perfect	king			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	is	past · perfect	no other man		able property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	no other man not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	past · perfect	king not said here	courage		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient

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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