The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 151

But this was not so easy; and, moreover, the letter in her hand burnt her with longing to read it, and see what was inside.

Who acts: this, letter · What happens: not be, burnt, long, read, see, be · To what, where: corner, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, letter), 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	_	6 easy	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 easy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 burnt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 burnt	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	17 burnt	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moreover	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 letter	det
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burnt	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letter	nmod
17	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burnt	obj
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 longing	mark
20	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 burnt	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 read	mark
22	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 longing	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 see	cc
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	parataxis
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 inside	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 inside	cop
29	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 see	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this		easy property	tree rules
2	burnt	past	the letter in corner's hand	corner	moreover property	tree rules
3	long	gerund	the letter in corner's hand not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	the letter in corner's hand not said here	letter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past			inside 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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