The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 13
‘I ought to know what your name is and where you live.’
Who acts: I, name, you, your · What happens: know, be, live, name
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, name, you, your), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 live | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | ought | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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