The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 18

“It is I, Holy Man, Father Grumbler, you know, who has as many children as sparrows in the garden.”

Who acts: cave, you, Holy Man · What happens: be, know, have · To what, where: Holy Man, many children

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, you, Holy Man), 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	_	7 Man	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Man	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Man	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Man	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Man	punct
6	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	7 Man	compound
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Father	punct
9	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Man	conj
10	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Father	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Man	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Man	acl:relcl
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 sparrows	case
21	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 garden	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sparrows	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Man	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	cave	Holy Man and Father		tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	you	Holy Man and Father not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	have in a quote	present	Holy Man and Father	many children	as sparrows in the garden	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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