The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 65

And his wife was very old too—how old I do not know; but some said she was as old as the goddess Venus herself.

Who acts: wife, I, some · What happens: be, not know, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, some), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 old	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 old	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 old	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 old	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 old	advmod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 goddess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 goddess	det
25	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 old	obl
26	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 goddess	appos
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 Venus	nmod:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	child's wife	old property	tree rules
2	be		child's wife not said here		tree rules
3	not know	present · do-support	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	wife	as the goddess; old 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: «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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