The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 63

You know quite well that it was I who drew the water, and you who only poured it into the trenches.'

Who acts: You, grain, I · What happens: know, be, draw, pour · To what, where: I, water, grain, trenches

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, grain, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 know	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 drew	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 I	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 I	cop
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drew	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 drew	nsubj
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poured	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poured	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 poured	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 poured	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 poured	advmod
18	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poured	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 trenches	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trenches	det
22	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 poured	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	You			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	grain	I			tree rules
3	draw	past	I	the water			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	pour	past	you	grain	the trenches		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trench=Destination

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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