The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 77
When I know that I shall have guessed the riddle!’
Who acts: I · What happens: know, guess · To what, where: riddle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 know | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 guessed | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 guessed | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 guessed | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 guessed | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guessed | aux |
| 8 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 riddle | det |
| 10 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guessed | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 guessed | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | guess | shall · perfect | I | the riddle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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