The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 34

When he knew what had been done to him he thought, “All the threads of affliction are gathered together; I have lost my last chance!”

Who acts: prince, my · What happens: know, do, think, gather, lose, chance · To what, where: prince, threads, last chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 knew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 done	obj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 done	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 done	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gathered	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 gathered	punct
14	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 threads	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 threads	det
16	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gathered	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 affliction	case
18	affliction	affliction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threads	nmod
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gathered	aux:pass
20	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 thought	ccomp
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 gathered	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 chance	nmod:poss
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chance	amod
28	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past · perfect · passive			prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	past	prince				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	gather in a quote	present · passive		all threads of affliction		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lose in a quote	present · perfect	prince	my last chance			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality
6	chance in a quote		my				nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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