The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 90

She had long ago learned how clever and how wicked he was, and something whispered to her that it was he who would gain the credit of having carried back the sword, and would claim her as his bride, though he had never even entered her chamber.

Who acts: evil, something, window, credit, king · What happens: learn, be, whisper, carry back, claim, have · To what, where: evil, sword, chamber · 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 (evil, something, window, credit), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learned	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 learned	advmod
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 clever	advmod
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 learned	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wicked	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 wicked	advmod
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clever	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wicked	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whispered	cc
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 whispered	nsubj
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 whispered	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 gain	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gain	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gain	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gain	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 gain	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 gain	aux
25	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 whispered	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 credit	det
27	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gain	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 carried	mark
29	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 carried	aux
30	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 credit	acl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 carried	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sword	det
33	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carried	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 claim	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 claim	cc
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 claim	aux
37	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 claim	obj
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 bride	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bride	nmod:poss
41	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 claim	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 claim	parataxis
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 entered	advmod
47	even	even	ADV	_	48 entered	advmod
48	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 had	advcl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 chamber	nmod:poss
50	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 entered	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	evil			ago property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	evil not said here			wicked property	tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert	past	something		evil		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	would · past	window			gain property	tree rules
5	carry back	gerund · perfect	the credit not said here	the sword			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	claim speech: other	would	evil not said here	evil		as king's bride	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
7	have	past	king				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	not enter	past	king not said here	evil's chamber			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination

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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