The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 69
“You know you promised only a few days ago that you would get your snow-shoes elsewhere.”
Who acts: You · What happens: know, promise, get · To what, where: snow shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 days | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 promised | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shoes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 snow | punct |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | obj |
| 19 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | ago property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | would | you | your snow shoes | elsewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=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: «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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