The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 61

He had been absent ten whole years, but he too knew no more than the rest.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, know · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 absent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 absent	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 absent	cop
4	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 absent	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 knew	advmod
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 absent	parataxis
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 knew	obj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 rest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 absent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	eagle				year	absent property	tree rules
2	know	past	eagle	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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