The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 24
“I might have known it was one of your tricks!”
Who acts: Abu Nowas, laugh, your · What happens: know, be, trick · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu Nowas, laugh, your), 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 | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | aux |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 known | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tricks | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | might · perfect | Abu Nowas = nowas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | laugh | one | of your tricks | tree rules | |||
| 3 | trick in a quote | your | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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