The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 55

‘Surely you know that I value all that you say, whatever it may be.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, value, say, be · To what, where: all, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 value	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 value	nsubj
7	value	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 value	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 say	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 all	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whatever	punct
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 value	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 be	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 whatever	cop
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	you		surely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	value	present	I	all		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	is a	infinitive	I not said here	whatever		tree rules

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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