The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 115

‘Who could know that you were still alive—you who have been a wanderer so long?’ answered the brothers.

Who acts: you · What happens: know, be, answer · To what, where: wanderer, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (you), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 know	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 alive	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 alive	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alive	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 alive	advmod
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 wanderer	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wanderer	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wanderer	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wanderer	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 wanderer	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wanderer	det
16	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 know	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brothers	det
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 answered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	could					long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	you			still	alive property	tree rules
3	is a	present · perfect	you	a wanderer				tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past			the brothers			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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