The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 61
She came to love him very much, and she spent day and night thinking how she could make her affection known to him.
Who acts: princess, affection · What happens: come, love, spend, think, make, know · To what, where: prince, affection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, affection), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 love | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spent | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spent | nsubj |
| 11 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spent | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | conj |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spent | advcl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 make | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 affection | nmod:poss |
| 21 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 known | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | princess not said here | prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | spend | past | princess | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | could | princess | princess's affection | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | participle | princess's affection not said here | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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