The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 42
What the girl thought about the matter nobody knew or cared—it was not the fashion in the rat world.
Who acts: girl, nobody, matter · What happens: think, know, care, not be · To what, where: matter, fashion, rat world
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, nobody, matter), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 thought | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 matter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 cared | cc |
| 11 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | conj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fashion | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fashion | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fashion | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fashion | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fashion | det |
| 17 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cared | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 20 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 world | compound |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fashion | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the girl | about the matter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | the matter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | care | past | nobody not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | matter | the fashion | the rat world | 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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