The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 140

He had no idea where the golden hen might be, or even, if he discovered that, how he was to get to her.

Who acts: boy · What happens: have, discover, be · To what, where: idea, that, hen

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 be	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hen	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hen	amod
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 be	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 idea	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 discovered	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 discovered	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	17 discovered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 even	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 discovered	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 discovered	nsubj
17	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 discovered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 get	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 get	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 discovered	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	no idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	discover a condition, not said to happen	past	boy	that			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	is	past	boy		hen	get property	tree rules

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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