The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 85

He imagined that she was too young and inexperienced to care for him; but that was a mistake, for the truth was that another image already filled her heart.

Who acts: gnome, princess, that, image · What happens: imagine, be, care · To what, where: mistake, truth

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 (gnome, princess, that, image), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 imagined	nsubj
2	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 young	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 young	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 young	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 young	advmod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 imagined	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 inexperienced	cc
9	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 young	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 care	mark
11	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inexperienced	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 care	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 mistake	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 mistake	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 mistake	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mistake	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mistake	det
19	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagined	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 truth	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 truth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truth	det
23	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mistake	parataxis
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 filled	cop
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 filled	mark
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 image	det
27	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	nsubj
28	already	already	ADV	_	29 filled	advmod
29	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 truth	acl:relcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	past	gnome			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	princess		young property	tree rules
3	be		princess not said here			tree rules
4	care	to-infinitive	princess not said here		for gnome	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
5	is a	past	that	a mistake		tree rules
6	is	past	another image	the truth not said here	fill 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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