The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given it to her, but a fairy, wise in telling what would happen in the days to come.

Who acts: girl, token, common old woman · What happens: know, be, give, tell, happen, come · To what, where: common old woman, token, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, token, common old woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 knew	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 token	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 token	det
4	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woman	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 woman	det
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 given	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 woman	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wise	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 wise	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fairy	det
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wise	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wise	punct
24	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knew	parataxis
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 telling	mark
26	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 wise	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 happen	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 happen	aux
29	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 telling	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 days	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 days	det
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 happen	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 come	mark
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 happen	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	girl				by that token	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	token	no common old woman				tree rules
3	give	past · perfect	no common old woman	token	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	would				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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