The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 82
Her plan was a very simple one, and had never yet failed.
Who acts: plan, wife · What happens: be, not fail, plan · To what, where: simple one
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 (plan, wife), 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 plan | nmod:poss |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 simple | advmod |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 failed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 failed | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 failed | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 failed | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 failed | advmod |
| 13 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wife's plan | a simple one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fail | past · perfect | a simple one not said here | yet | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plan | wife | nom plan «cognition 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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