Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 13

"Poor thing!" said Bruce: "you, too, know what it is to fail."

Who acts: Bruce, thing · What happens: say, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruce, thing), 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	_	3 thing	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	14 know	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 too	punct
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 fail	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fail	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fail	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fail	mark
19	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bruce		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	thing	fail 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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