The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 48

The nurse coveted the pearls, but as she was three hundred years old she did not know how she could catch a deer.

Who acts: nurse, girl · What happens: covet, be, not know, catch · To what, where: pearls, deer · 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 (nurse, girl), 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	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coveted	nsubj
3	coveted	covet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pearls	det
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 coveted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 old	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	compound
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 know	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 coveted	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 catch	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 catch	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 catch	aux
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deer	det
24	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 catch	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 coveted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	covet	past	the nurse	the pearls			vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pearl=Theme
2	is	past	girl		year	old property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	catch	could	girl	a deer			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme

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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