The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 25
We have been deceived, for we all thought she was dead.”
Who acts: we, girl · What happens: deceive, think, be · To what, where: We · 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 (we, girl), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deceived | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 deceived | aux:pass |
| 4 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 we | det |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deceived | parataxis |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceived | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | present · perfect · passive | We | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | we | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | dead 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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