The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 22
Everybody was naturally very angry at this behaviour, and the girl most of all, and in her secret heart she determined to have her revenge.
Who acts: Everybody, girl · What happens: be, determine, have, revenge · To what, where: behaviour, secret heart, revenge
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 (Everybody, girl), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 behaviour | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 behaviour | det |
| 8 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 girl | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 girl | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | conj |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 girl | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 most | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 determined | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 determined | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heart | amod |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 determined | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 determined | nsubj |
| 23 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 determined | xcomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 27 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everybody | this behaviour | angry, naturally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | determine | past | girl | girl's secret heart | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl's revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 4 | revenge | girl | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=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 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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