The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 23

But of what head you speak I know not.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, not know · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 speak	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 head	nsubj
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	you					of head	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present	I						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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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