The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 99
But though she was very good-natured, she was not very clever, and she got some of the bits wrong.
Who acts: great many · What happens: be, not be, get · To what, where: some
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 (great many), 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 | _ | 14 clever | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 natured | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 natured | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 natured | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 natured | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 natured | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clever | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 natured | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clever | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clever | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 clever | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 clever | advmod |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clever | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 got | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bits | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bits | det |
| 22 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 some | nmod |
| 23 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bits | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | great many = many | natured property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | great many = many | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | great many = many | some | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=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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