The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 35

‘Well,’ said the old woman, ‘there are three of us sisters; it may be that one of the other two knows where he is to be found.

Who acts: old woman, whistle, other two · What happens: say, be, know, find · To what, where: one, Farmer · 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 (old woman, whistle, other two), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 are	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 are	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sisters	nummod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 three	nmod
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 are	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 one	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 one	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 one	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 two	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 two	amod
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 knows	nsubj
27	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 one	parataxis
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 found	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 found	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 found	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 found	aux:pass
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 knows	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	may	whistle	one	tree rules
3	know	present	the other two		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	present · passive		Farmer	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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