The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 58

‘Sir,’ she said, ‘I know all that has happened to you, and how you are seeking if in any wise you can save your life.

Who acts: Sir, I, that, you · What happens: say, know, happen, seek, save · To what, where: you, life, wise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, I, that, you), 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 said	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 happened	det:predet
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 happened	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happened	aux
14	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 know	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 happened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seeking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seeking	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 seeking	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 seeking	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seeking	aux
22	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 save	mark
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 wise	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 wise	det
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 save	obl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 save	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 save	aux
29	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seeking	advcl
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 save	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sir				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	present · perfect	that		you		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	present · progressive	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	save a condition, not said to happen	can	you	your life		any wise	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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