The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 21

Now the Red Knight had never opened a book of magic in his life; but he was accustomed to think that he could do everything better than other people without any teaching at all.

Who acts: Red Knight, Knight · What happens: not open, accustom, think, do · To what, where: book, Knight, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Knight, Knight), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Knight	det
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Knight	flat
4	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 opened	advmod
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 magic	case
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 magic	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 accustomed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 accustomed	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 accustomed	aux:pass
19	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 opened	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 think	mark
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 accustomed	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 do	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 do	obj
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 everything	amod
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 better	obl
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 teaching	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 teaching	det
33	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 teaching	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not open	past · perfect	the Red Knight	a book of magic in Knight's life	now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme
2	accustom	past · passive		Knight			tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	could	Knight	everything		without any teaching at all	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

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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