The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 12

‘Well,’ said the Bull, ‘I know what it is, though you will not tell me; you are weeping because the Queen is unkind to you, and because she wants to starve you to death.

Who acts: I, answer, you, Queen · What happens: say, know, be, not tell, weep, want · To what, where: Bull, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, answer, you, Queen), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	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 Bull	det
7	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 know	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 what	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 tell	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tell	advmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 weeping	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 weeping	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 weeping	aux
25	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 unkind	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Queen	det
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 unkind	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 unkind	cop
30	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 weeping	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 unkind	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wants	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wants	cc
35	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 wants	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wants	nsubj
37	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 weeping	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 starve	mark
39	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wants	xcomp
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 starve	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 starve	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Bull			tree rules
2	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	answer				tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	future	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	weep	present · progressive	you				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the Queen		you	unkind property	tree rules
7	want	present	Queen				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	starve not said to happen	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	you		to death	tree rules

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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