The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 20
“You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter?”
Who acts: You, experienced men · What happens: be, verse, know, hear, see · To what, where: experienced men, affairs, anything
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, experienced men), 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 | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 men | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 men | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 men | cop |
| 5 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 know | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 versed | cc |
| 8 | versed | verse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 men | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 affairs | case |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 versed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 men | punct |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hear | cc |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hear | conj |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 matter | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anything | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | experienced men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | verse in a quote | participle | You not said here | affairs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past · do-support | experienced men | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | experienced men not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | experienced men not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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 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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