The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 26

‘I am the new servant he has engaged, as you know very well,’ answered Peronnik.

Who acts: I, servant, you, new servant · What happens: be, engage, know, answer · To what, where: new servant, Peronnik

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, servant, you, new servant), 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	_	6 servant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 servant	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 servant	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 engaged	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 engaged	aux
9	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 servant	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
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	9 engaged	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 know	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 engaged	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the new servant			tree rules
2	engage	present · perfect	servant	the new servant not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
3	know	present	you			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	the new servant		Peronnik		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peronnik=Eventuality

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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