The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 26

I know it hair by hair, and in and out; but if I tell you what I know, who is there that can say I speak the truth?

Who acts: I, truth, that · What happens: know, hair, tell, be, say, speak · To what, where: you, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, truth, that), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hair	nsubj
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 hair	case
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 in	cc
9	in	in	ADV	_	2 know	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 out	cc
11	out	out	ADV	_	9 in	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 know	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 is	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 is	nsubj
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	advcl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 say	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 say	aux
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 speak	nsubj
29	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 truth	det
31	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 speak	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				by hair	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hair		truth					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	be	present				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	can	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	speak speech: other	present	I	the truth				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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