The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 84

Stan was already repenting bitterly that he had ever come to such a place, but, since he was there, there was nothing for it but to take everything quietly, and not show that he was afraid.

Who acts: Stan, repenting · What happens: repent, come, be, take, not show · To what, where: place, nothing, everything · 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, repenting), 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	4 repenting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repenting	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 repenting	advmod
4	repenting	repent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 nothing	csubj
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 repenting	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 repenting	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 place	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 there	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 there	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 there	cop
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 was	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 there	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nothing	cop
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nmod
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 take	mark
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	conj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 take	obj
32	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	30 take	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 show	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 show	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 show	advmod
36	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 take	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 afraid	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 afraid	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 afraid	cop
40	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 show	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repent	past · progressive	Stan				bitterly property	tree rules
2	come	past	Stan		such place	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Stan				there property	tree rules
4	is a	past	repenting	nothing			for place	tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	repenting not said here	everything			quietly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
6	not show	infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Stan				afraid 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 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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