The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 104
‘Yes, indeed, what can I know?’ replied the girl; ‘I had enough to do to get the hearth clean.’
Who acts: I · What happens: know, reply, have, do, get · To what, where: girl, hearth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 know | obj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | conj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 had | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 do | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hearth | det |
| 25 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 get | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | can | I | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | I | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | the hearth | clean property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hearth=Stimulus |
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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