The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 74

He knew very well he had been cheated, though he could not think how.

Who acts: father · What happens: know, cheat, not think · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cheated	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cheated	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cheated	aux:pass
8	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 think	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 think	advmod
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cheated	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 think	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	father		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cheat	past · perfect · passive		father		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	not think speech: other	could	father			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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