More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 120

"Oh dear!" said the old man, "I knew that you were a king's son, and I know what is your business better than what you do yourself.

Who acts: old man, you · What happens: say, know, be, do · To what, where: son, business, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Oh	xcomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 son	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 son	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 son	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 business	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 business	cop
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 business	nmod:poss
28	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	ccomp
29	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 know	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 what	case
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 better	obl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 do	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	past	the old man = man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	past	you	a king's son		tree rules
4	know in a quote	present	the old man = man		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present		your business		tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	you	yourself		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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