The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 4

Yet he knew, while he said it, that he was counting the hours for night to come, that he might return to the forest.

Who acts: he · What happens: know, say, count, come, return · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	3 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 counting	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 counting	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 counting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 counting	aux
13	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hours	det
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 counting	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counting	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 counting	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 return	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 return	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 return	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 return	aux
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	he	mind			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	count	past · progressive	he		hour; night		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	might	he			to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result

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.

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