The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 49

‘Well,’ said the old woman, ‘I have another sister; perhaps she may know something about him.

Who acts: old woman, I, woman · What happens: say, have, know · To what, where: sister, 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 (old woman, I, woman), 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 have	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sister	det
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 know	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 something	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	I	another sister		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
3	know	may	woman	something	about Farmer; 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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