The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 124
'You know only what has passed, and nothing of what lies before.
Who acts: You · What happens: know, pass, lie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nothing | cc |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 lies | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||||
| 3 | lie | present | before property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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