The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 102

Ah, of course he knew; why had he not thought of it at first and spared himself all that fatigue?

Who acts: Carrier · What happens: know, have, not think, spare · To what, where: Carrier

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
3	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 knew	advmod
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 of	fixed
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 thought	advmod
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 thought	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spared	cc
18	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 spared	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 fatigue	det:predet
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 fatigue	det
22	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spared	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Carrier			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	Carrier not said here			tree rules
3	not think speech: other	participle	Carrier		of course	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spare	past	Carrier not said here	Carrier		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient fatigue=Asset

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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