The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 104
I knew you were stupid, but I did not think you were as stupid as that.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, be, not think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stupid | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stupid | cop |
| 5 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 think | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stupid | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stupid | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 stupid | advmod |
| 15 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 think | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 stupid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | you | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | you | as that; stupid property | 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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