The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 118

I know what sort of weapon I shall use.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, use, sort · To what, where: sort, weapon

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 weapon	case
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 use	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sort	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	I	what sort of weapon	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
2	use	shall	I	what sort of weapon not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
3	sort			weapon	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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