The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 121

‘I know so well that I have refused to wear one,’ said the little maiden, ‘though I don’t know who was my father, or who was my mother, and I have not a friend in the world.’

Who acts: I, father · What happens: know, refuse, not wear, say, not know, be · To what, where: one, father, mother, friend, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 know	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 refused	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 refused	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 refused	aux
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wear	mark
11	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refused	xcomp
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 wear	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 refused	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maiden	obl:unmarked
18	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 know	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 father	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 father	cop
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 know	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mother	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 mother	cc
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 mother	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mother	cop
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 have	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	conj
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 friend	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 friend	det
42	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 world	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 friend	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	refuse	present · perfect	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not wear	to-infinitive	I not said here	one			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source
4	say speech: assert	past				maiden property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past		my father or my mother			tree rules
7	is a	past	my father or my mother	my mother			tree rules
8	have	present	I	a friend	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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