The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 114
But of this, of course, the king knew nothing.
What happens: know · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 knew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 of | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obl |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | nothing | of this; of the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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