The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 96
This time the king thought he had invented something totally impossible, and was quite pleased with himself for his cleverness.
Who acts: king · What happens: think, invent, be · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 invented | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 invented | aux |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 invented | obj |
| 10 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 11 impossible | advmod |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 invented | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pleased | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pleased | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 pleased | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 cleverness | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pleased | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · perfect | king | something | impossible property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | with king; for king's cleverness; pleased 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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