--- title: The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale. Who acts: man, moment. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/89/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/) / 89 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 89 The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale. **Who acts:** man, moment · **What happens:** be, feel, speak, become, have, grow · **To what, where:** something · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, moment), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:29:89 # text = The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 rather rather ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 fixed _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 quite quite ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 39 quite quite ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the man | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | past | man | | | | evening | particularly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the moment man's wife | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | man | | | | | certain *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | man | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | past | the moment man's wife *not said here* | | | | | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/90/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)