The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 83

They thought themselves so clever, that if they had known only half of what they did know, it would have been quite enough.

Who acts: sons · What happens: think, know, be · To what, where: sons

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 thought	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 known	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 known	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 known	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 known	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	parataxis
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 half	advmod
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 known	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 half	nmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 known	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 would	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 known	conj
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 enough	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 enough	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 enough	advmod
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 would	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sons = son	sons = son	clever property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
2	know	past · perfect · passive		sons = son		tree rules
3	know	past · do-support	sons = son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	infinitive · perfect			enough 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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