The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 33

She said that she knew nothing about him, but that she ruled over all the four-footed beasts, and some of them might know him.

Who acts: woman, some · What happens: say, know, rule over · To what, where: nothing, footed beasts, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, some), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 knew	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nothing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ruled	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ruled	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ruled	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ruled	nsubj
13	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 ruled	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 beasts	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beasts	det
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 footed	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 four	punct
19	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ruled	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 know	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 some	nmod
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ruled	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	woman	nothing	about lad	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	rule over	past	woman	all footed beasts	over property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
4	know	might	some	lad		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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