The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 34

“How silly you are!” answered Iron-strong; “you know that at this hour he is always eating.”

Who acts: Iron, silly, master · What happens: be, answer, know, eat · To what, where: Iron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iron, silly, master), 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 silly	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 silly	advmod
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 silly	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silly	cop
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 silly	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 silly	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 strong	punct
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Iron	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 eating	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 hour	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eating	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eating	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eating	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 eating	advmod
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 know	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Iron			silly property	tree rules
2	answer speech: express	past	silly	Iron			tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	Iron				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat in a quote	present · progressive	master		hour	always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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