The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 61

She knew nothing at all about him, she said, but she governed all the birds; and she gathered them together with her whistle.

Who acts: woman · What happens: know, say, govern, gather, whistle · To what, where: nothing, birds · 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), 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	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 him	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 governed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 governed	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 governed	nsubj
14	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 birds	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 governed	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gathered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gathered	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gathered	nsubj
21	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gathered	obj
23	together	together	ADV	_	21 gathered	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 whistle	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 whistle	nmod:poss
26	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gathered	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	woman	nothing	at horse	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	govern	past	woman	all birds		vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	gather	past	woman	birds = bird	with woman's whistle; together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with whistle=Co-Patient
5	whistle		woman			nom whistle «event intransitive»: 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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