The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 60
The girl knew well how matters really stood, but she pretended to know nothing about it, and sat dumb behind the stove.
Who acts: girl, matters · What happens: know, stand, pretend, sit · To what, where: nothing, stove
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 (girl, matters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 stood | advmod |
| 6 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretended | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pretended | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pretended | nsubj |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pretended | xcomp |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pretended | conj |
| 21 | dumb | dumb | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 stove | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stove | det |
| 24 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the girl | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | matters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pretend | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | girl not said here | nothing | about arm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | sit | past | girl not said here | the stove | dumb property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stove=Location |
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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