The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 175

For they knew by the uproar that she had arrived, but they could not tell what all the shouting was about.

Who acts: King, daughter, shouting · What happens: know, arrive, not tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter, shouting), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 uproar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 uproar	det
6	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 arrived	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 arrived	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	aux
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 knew	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 tell	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 shouting	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shouting	det
20	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 about	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 about	cop
22	about	about	ADV	_	16 tell	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	past	King	by the uproar	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	arrive	past · perfect	daughter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	could	King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
4	is	past	all shouting	about 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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