The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 118
After some time a baby was born to her, and Thakane thought it was the most beautiful baby that ever was seen.
Who acts: Thakane, baby · What happens: bear, think, be, see · To what, where: baby, daughter, beautiful baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, baby), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 born | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 baby | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 baby | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 baby | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 baby | amod |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 seen | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 baby | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a baby | daughter | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Thakane | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | baby | the beautiful baby | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | the beautiful baby | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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