--- title: Stan was already repenting bitterly that he had ever come to such a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/84/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 84 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:13:84 # text = 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. 1 Stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 already already ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 repenting repent VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ _ 5 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 14 det:predet _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 since since SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obj _ _ 32 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/85/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)