The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 47

She knew nothing about him, but she ruled over all the fishes, she said, and perhaps some of them might know something.

Who acts: woman, some · What happens: know, rule over, say · To what, where: nothing, fishes, something · 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ruled	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ruled	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ruled	nsubj
9	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 ruled	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fishes	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fishes	det
13	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ruled	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 know	advmod
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 know	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 some	nmod
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 know	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

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