The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 39

How was I to know that you were alive?”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 alive	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 alive	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alive	cop
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					know property	tree rules
2	is	past	you					alive property	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 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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