The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 95

‘I know what it is,’ answered the charcoal-burner, hanging his head.

Who acts: I, mouse · What happens: know, be, answer, hang · To what, where: charcoal burner, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, mouse), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 know	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	CCONJ	_	9 answered	cc
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 burner	det
11	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burner	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 charcoal	punct
13	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hanging	punct
15	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hanging	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	mouse		tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past		the charcoal burner	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent burner=Eventuality
4	hang	gerund		king's head	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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