The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 12
Unfortunately, the queen, like all women, could not bear to think that there was anything which she did not know.
Who acts: queen, anything, head · What happens: not bear, think, be, not know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, anything, head), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 12 bear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unfortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 women | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 women | det |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 queen | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bear | advmod |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bear | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | ccomp |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 was | nsubj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 know | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | the queen and all women | unfortunately property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the queen and all women not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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