The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 40
But how would it be possible that even Rosald should deceive the watchful eyes of the king and his court, and still more those of the young queen whom he felt uneasily had suspected him from the first?
Who acts: compact, Rosald, young queen · What happens: be, deceive, feel, suspect · To what, where: watchful eyes, young queen, Rosald, first
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 (compact, Rosald, young queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 possible | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 possible | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 possible | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 possible | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 possible | cop |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 deceive | mark |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 Rosald | advmod |
| 9 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 deceive | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 deceive | aux |
| 11 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 possible | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyes | det |
| 13 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 deceive | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 court | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 court | nmod:poss |
| 20 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 those | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 those | cc |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 those | amod |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 possible | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 queen | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 queen | amod |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 those | nmod |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 felt | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 felt | nsubj |
| 32 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 queen | acl:relcl |
| 33 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 35 suspected | advmod |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 suspected | aux |
| 35 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 felt | xcomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 suspected | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 first | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 first | det |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 suspected | obl |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | compact | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deceive | should | Rosald | the watchful eyes of the king and Rosald's court | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Rosald | the young queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suspect | past · perfect | the young queen not said here | Rosald | the first | uneasily property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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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