The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 15
“After all, nobody need ever know!
Who acts: nobody · What happens: know
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 (nobody), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 nobody | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | nobody | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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