The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 59
“I knew a man was hidden somewhere,” cried the princess, and screamed more loudly than before.
Who acts: princess · What happens: know, hide, cry, scream · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hidden | aux:pass |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 hidden | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 screamed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 screamed | cc |
| 16 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 loudly | advmod |
| 18 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 16 screamed | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 screamed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | the princess = princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hide in a quote | past · passive | a man | somewhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | past | the princess not said here | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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