The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 87

We are quite alone: nobody will ever know.’

Who acts: We, nobody · What happens: be, know

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, nobody), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 alone	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 alone	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 know	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 alone	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We					alone property	tree rules
2	know	future	nobody				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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