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 | to whom | where | when | 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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