The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 115

He won’t think about us for the next three days—that is one comfort—so we shall have plenty of time to cross the borders of the kingdom and be out of reach.”

Who acts: king, that, we · What happens: not think, be, have, cross · To what, where: one comfort, plenty, borders, reach

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that, we), 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	4 think	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 days	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 comfort	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 comfort	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 comfort	cop
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 comfort	nummod
16	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 have	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	parataxis
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plenty	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cross	mark
26	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 borders	det
28	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cross	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kingdom	det
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 borders	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 reach	cc
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 reach	cop
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 reach	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 reach	case
36	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cross	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	future	king			day	about us	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about we=Topic
2	is a	present	that	one comfort				tree rules
3	have	shall	we	plenty of time				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
4	cross	to-infinitive	we not said here	the borders of the kingdom				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient
5	is	infinitive	we not said here		reach			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 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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