The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 114
He spent seven days thinking it over in silence.
Who acts: prince · What happens: spend, think over · To what, where: information, silence
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spent | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 thinking | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 silence | case |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | prince | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think over speech: other | gerund | prince not said here | information | silence | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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