Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 39

“Nay, I know not,” said the woman, “and you cannot see!

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: not know, say, not see · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	5 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 woman	acl:relcl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present	the woman = woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: express	past	the woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see in a quote	can	you	the woman not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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