The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 28
Her heart sank, for she feared that her long-kept secret was now to be noised abroad.
Who acts: heart · What happens: sink, fear, keep, be · To what, where: long kept secret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feared | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 feared | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 feared | nsubj |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 noised | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 secret | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 secret | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 secret | amod |
| 13 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 noised | cop |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 noised | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 noised | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 noised | aux:pass |
| 18 | noised | noise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feared | ccomp |
| 19 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 18 noised | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | person's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fear | past | heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past · passive | person's long kept secret | now | abroad, noise 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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