The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 92
‘I should know him well enough,’ said the old woman rising.
Who acts: I, old woman · What happens: know, say, rise · To what, where: Halvor · 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 (I, old 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 know | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 woman | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | should | I | Halvor | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the old woman not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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