The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 80
Alas! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and anguish of our love; from secret it became known.
Who acts: way, our · What happens: conceal, mingle, anguish, be, know, love · To what, where: mingled delight, secret
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, our), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 became | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 way | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 concealing | mark |
| 9 | concealing | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 delight | det |
| 11 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 delight | amod |
| 12 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anguish | cc |
| 14 | anguish | anguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 concealing | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anguish | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 secret | case |
| 20 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 became | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 became | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | gerund | no way not said here | the mingled delight | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mingle | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | anguish | infinitive | no way not said here | of our love | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | way | secret | become property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | participle | way not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | love | our | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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