The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 9

But we have thought of a better plan than that.’

Who acts: we · What happens: think

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 plan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plan	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 plan	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect	we					of a better plan than that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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