The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 67

“How do you happen to know about him?” inquired the old woman; “maybe you are she who ought to have had him.”

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: happen, know, inquire, have · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 happen	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 happen	nsubj
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 inquired	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happen	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 know	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
12	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inquired	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
18	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux:pass
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 had	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	26 had	mark
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	aux
26	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 inquired	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 inquired	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen in a quote	present · do-support	you			tree rules
2	know in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		about castle	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about he=Stimulus
3	inquire speech: other	past	the old woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	ought · present · perfect · passive		you	maybe property	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 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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