The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 3
To comfort her husband, the princess had spoken lightly and gaily; but she knew very well she had no light task before her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: comfort, speak, know, have · To what, where: husband, princess, light task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 comfort | mark |
| 2 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spoken | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 husband | nmod:poss |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comfort | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 comfort | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | aux |
| 9 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 9 spoken | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gaily | cc |
| 12 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lightly | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | parataxis |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 well | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 knew | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 task | det |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 task | compound |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | to-infinitive | desert's husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the princess | lightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | princess | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | princess | no light task | before desert | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=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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