The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 12

But after a while, his secret, which he had carefully kept, burnt within him, and he longed to tell it to somebody.

Who acts: man · What happens: keep, long, tell · To what, where: man, secret, somebody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 while	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 secret	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 secret	nmod:poss
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 while	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 kept	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 secret	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 burnt	punct
15	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
16	within	within	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 burnt	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 longed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 longed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 longed	nsubj
21	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 burnt	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 longed	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 somebody	case
26	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 while	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · passive		man		burnt, carefully property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute
2	long	past	man				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	secret	somebody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to somebody=Recipient

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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