The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 11

As everybody knows, if we once begin to think we soon begin to do, and it was not very long before the key was no longer in the maiden’s hand but in the lock of the chest.

Who acts: everybody, we, dame, key · What happens: know, begin, think, do, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, we, dame, key), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 knows	mark
2	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 begin	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 begin	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 begin	advmod
8	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begin	xcomp
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 begin	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 begin	advmod
13	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 think	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begin	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 long	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 long	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 long	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 long	advmod
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 begin	conj
23	before	before	ADP	_	33 hand	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 key	det
25	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hand	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hand	cop
27	no	no	ADV	_	28 longer	advmod
28	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 hand	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 maiden	det
31	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hand	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 maiden	case
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 long	obl
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 lock	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 lock	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lock	det
37	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hand	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 chest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chest	det
40	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lock	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	everybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	present	we		once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	begin	present	we		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	dame		long property	tree rules
7	is	past	the key	before the maiden's hand but the lock of the chest	long property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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