The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 56

Then he said: ‘Well, now, you’ve been out in the wood all the day and I’ve stayed quietly at home, and all the same I know more than you do.’

Who acts: Benjamin, you, I, wood · What happens: say, be, have, stay, know, do · To what, where: wood, home, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin, you, I, wood), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Well	punct
6	Well	well	INTJ	_	16 wood	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Well	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Well	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Well	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wood	nsubj
11	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wood	cop
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 wood	cop
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 been	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stayed	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	obl:unmarked
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ’ve	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ’ve	nsubj
22	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wood	conj
23	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	23 stayed	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stayed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 same	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 same	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 same	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 same	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stayed	parataxis
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
33	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 same	parataxis
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 know	obj
35	than	than	SCONJ	_	37 do	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
37	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 more	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 stayed	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Benjamin			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you		the wood	day		tree rules
3	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stay	past	the wood		home		quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	know	present	I	more				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
6	do	present	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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