The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 88
“I had not thought of that,” said the bear, whose face turned white, only nobody could see it.
Who acts: bear, face, nobody · What happens: not think, say, turn, see · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, face, nobody), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | acl:relcl |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turned | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | the bear = bear | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | face | white property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | nobody | face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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