The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 21
None of her friends owned such things, not even the miller, who was the richest man she knew.
Who acts: None, miller, heart · What happens: own, be, know · To what, where: such things, richest man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, miller, heart), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 owned | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 owned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 miller | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 miller | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 miller | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 miller | det |
| 12 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 man | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 miller | appos |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | None | such things the miller | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the miller | the richest man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | heart | the richest man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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