The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 49

The old woman thought that the task set before was beyond his powers, and that no more would be heard about the sultan’s daughter.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: think, be, hear

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 (old woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 set	det
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	compound
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	13 powers	case
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 powers	cop
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 powers	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 powers	nmod:poss
13	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 heard	advmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 heard	aux:pass
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sultan	det
24	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 sultan	case
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the old woman			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past		before sultan's powers		tree rules
3	hear	would · passive	the old woman not said here		about the sultan's daughter	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: about daughter=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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