The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 58
You don’t know what fine times we have had at the palace!
Who acts: You, we · What happens: not know, have · To what, where: palace · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 had | obj |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | we | the palace | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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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