The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 47

‘Know’st thou, good man, that we are far too cramped on this wretched rock, and where am I to find room for so many cows?’

Who acts: we, I · What happens: be, find · To what, where: good man, wretched rock, room

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Know’st	punct
2	Know’st	Know'st	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Know’st	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Know’st	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cramped	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cramped	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cramped	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cramped	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 cramped	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 cramped	advmod
13	cramped	cramped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 rock	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 rock	det
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rock	amod
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cramped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 find	advmod
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 where	cop
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 where	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Know’st	acl:relcl
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 cows	case
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 many	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cows	amod
29	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 find	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Know’st	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Know’st	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	good man not said here	this wretched rock	cramped, far property	tree rules
2	is	present	I			where property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive		room		for many cows	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Theme for cow=Beneficiary

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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