The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 103
And Helga’s eyes shone, and though she did not say anything, she thought that she would learn to milk the cow herself.
Who acts: eyes, Helga · What happens: shine, not say, think, learn · To what, where: anything, milk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Helga), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shone | cc |
| 2 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Helga | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shone | nsubj |
| 5 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 say | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 say | advmod |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | advcl |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shone | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 learn | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learn | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 learn | aux |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 milk | mark |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cow | det |
| 24 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | obj |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 learn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | Helga's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | Helga | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Helga | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn | would | Helga | milk | Helga obl | 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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