The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 77

‘Oh!’ said the cockchafer, ‘we all know you very well, since we spend two or three months in your garden every year.’

Who acts: we · What happens: say, know, spend · To what, where: cockchafer, you, garden · 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 (we), 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 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cockchafer	det
7	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 we	det
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 know	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spend	punct
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 spend	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 spend	nsubj
19	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	conj
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 months	nummod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 three	cc
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 two	conj
23	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spend	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 garden	nmod:poss
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spend	obl
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 year	det
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spend	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cockchafer				tree rules
2	know	present	we	you			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	spend	present	we		your garden	month; year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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