The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 47

'Madam,' they said, 'we know not how to thank you for this mark of your confidence, but have the happiness to tell you that in a short time you will have a little daughter.'

Who acts: fairies, we, happiness, you, your · What happens: say, not know, thank, have, tell, mark · To what, where: you, happiness, little daughter, confidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, we, happiness, 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 thank	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 thank	mark
14	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 thank	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 mark	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 mark	det
18	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thank	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 confidence	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 confidence	nmod:poss
21	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mark	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 happiness	det
26	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tell	mark
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 have	mark
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 time	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 time	det
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 time	amod
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 daughter	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 daughter	amod
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fairies = fairy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	present	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive			you		for this mark of your confidence	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for mark=Attribute
4	have	present	we not said here	the happiness				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the happiness not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	have	future	you	a little daughter		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
7	mark			your confidence				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	confide		your					nom confidence «cognition 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 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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