The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 70

“Who knows?” cried Dame Ilse at last, “the wretch may have been idling in some tavern since early morning.”

Who acts: Dame, wretch · What happens: know, cry, idle · To what, where: last, tavern · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Dame, wretch), 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 knows	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
7	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
8	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dame	flat
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 idling	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 idling	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wretch	det
14	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 idling	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 idling	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 idling	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 idling	aux
18	idling	idle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 tavern	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 tavern	det
21	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 idling	obl
22	since	since	ADP	_	24 morning	case
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 idling	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	know in a quote	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	Dame	last		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	idle in a quote	may · perfect · progressive	the wretch	some tavern	morning	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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