More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 62
"But how shall I know you, Tamlane?" quoth Burd Janet, "amid so many knights I've ne'er seen before?"
Who acts: Burd Janet · What happens: know, quoth, see · To what, where: you, Burd Janet, ne'er · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burd Janet), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 quoth | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tamlane | punct |
| 9 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 12 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Janet | compound |
| 14 | Janet | Janet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 quoth | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 amid | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 amid | punct |
| 17 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Janet | appos |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knights | amod |
| 20 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 've | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 've | nsubj |
| 22 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 amid | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 've | obj |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ne'er | acl |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | shall | Burd Janet = janet | you | Tamlane vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | quoth | present | Burd Janet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | participle | ne'er not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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