The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 33
You must have known that I was just wanting a man of that kind.’
Who acts: I · What happens: know, want · To what, where: You, man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 known | aux |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wanting | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wanting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wanting | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 wanting | advmod |
| 9 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 known | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanting | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kind | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 kind | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must · perfect · passive | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | past · progressive | I | a man of that kind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
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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