The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 5
But he soon found that this was not at all a good plan.
Who acts: brook, this · What happens: find, not be · To what, where: good plan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brook, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 found | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 plan | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 plan | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 plan | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 plan | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 plan | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 plan | det |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plan | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plan | amod |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | brook | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | this | all good plan | 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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