The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 18
But the Bad One was very cunning, and would suspect some trick.
Who acts: Bad One · What happens: be, suspect · To what, where: trick
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 (Bad One), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cunning | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 One | det |
| 3 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 One | amod |
| 4 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cunning | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cunning | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 cunning | advmod |
| 7 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspect | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suspect | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suspect | aux |
| 11 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cunning | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trick | det |
| 13 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suspect | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cunning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Bad One | cunning property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suspect | would | the Bad One not said here | some trick | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute |
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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