The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 36
She had had time to think that perhaps the prince had heard of the presence of the negro, and knew no more.
Who acts: heart · What happens: have, think, hear, know · To what, where: prince, more · 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 heard | mark |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 prince | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 think | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 presence | det |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 negro | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 negro | det |
| 18 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 presence | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 knew | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | heart | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the prince | of the presence of the negro | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | past | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/6/36/