More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 116

Father," says she; "I know something of that boy."

Who acts: Father, I · What happens: say, know · To what, where: daughter, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, I), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Father	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Father	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 know	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 boy	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 something	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Father	daughter					tree rules
2	know	present	I	something					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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