The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 101

Stan spoke so calmly that this time the dragon began to get a little frightened, though he did not quite believe that things would be as bad as Stan said.

Who acts: Stan, time, little, things · What happens: speak, begin, get, frighten, not believe, be · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, time, little, things), 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	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 calmly	advmod
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	appos
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	obj
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 get	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 believe	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 believe	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 believe	advmod
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 believe	advmod
22	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 bad	mark
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bad	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bad	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 bad	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 bad	advmod
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 believe	advcl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
30	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bad	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Stan		calmly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	this time			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	this time not said here	a little		tree rules
4	frighten	participle	a little not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not believe	past · do-support	Stan			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	would	things		bad property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Stan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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