The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 91

The prince had not the least knowledge of the way to Waq of the Caucasus, and was cast down by the sense of his helplessness.

Who acts: prince, sense · What happens: have, cast down, sense · To what, where: least knowledge, helplessness

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 (prince, sense), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 knowledge	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knowledge	det
6	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 knowledge	amod
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knowledge	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Waq	case
12	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Caucasus	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Caucasus	det
15	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Waq	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cast	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cast	aux:pass
19	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 cast	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 sense	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sense	det
23	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cast	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 helplessness	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 helplessness	nmod:poss
26	helplessness	helplessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sense	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	the prince	the least knowledge of the way to Waq of the Caucasus	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
2	cast down	past · passive	the sense of prince's helplessness		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sense			prince's helplessness	nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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