The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 61

You know what is behind you, but you have no knowledge of what is before you.'

Who acts: You · What happens: know, have, be · To what, where: knowledge

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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	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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 behind	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 behind	cop
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 knowledge	det
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 knowledge	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 you	cop
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 what	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	You			behind you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	you	no knowledge			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
3	is	present			before you		tree rules

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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