The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 30

'I know it,' answered the city swallow, 'because, one day, when I was passing through the palace garden, I met a cuckoo, who, as I need not tell you, always pretends to be able to see into the future.

Who acts: I, cuckoo · What happens: know, answer, pass, meet, not tell, pretend · To what, where: head, city swallow, palace garden, cuckoo, you, future · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cuckoo), 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 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swallow	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swallow	compound
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 '	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 swallow	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 met	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 met	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 passing	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 passing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passing	aux
21	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 day	acl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 garden	compound
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 met	nsubj
28	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cuckoo	det
30	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 met	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 tell	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 tell	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
36	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 tell	advmod
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cuckoo	parataxis
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pretends	punct
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 pretends	advmod
42	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	45 able	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 able	cop
45	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pretends	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 see	mark
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 able	xcomp
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 future	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 future	det
50	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 see	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	head					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		the city swallow					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality
3	pass	past · progressive	I			the palace garden			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through garden=Location
4	meet	past	I	a cuckoo			day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuckoo=Co-Agent
5	not tell speech: assert	present	a cuckoo		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	pretend	present	a cuckoo not said here					always property	tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive	a cuckoo not said here					able property	tree rules
8	see	to-infinitive	a cuckoo not said here			the future			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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