The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 138

‘No,’ said the old woman, ‘that I do not, but the Moon will be here presently, and I will ask her, and she will know.

Who acts: old woman, I, Moon, woman · What happens: say, not do, be, ask, know · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. 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, Moon, 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	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	_	21 here	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 here	advcl
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Moon	det
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 here	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 here	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 here	cop
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	ccomp
22	presently	presently	ADV	_	21 here	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ask	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	aux
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ask	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 know	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ask	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to 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	not do	present	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	future	the Moon		here, presently property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	future	I	woman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	know	future	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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