The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 136

The Knight of the Glen, greatly surprised at what he had heard the old woman tell, and knowing he wanted his finger from his childhood, began to understand that the story was true enough.

Who acts: danger, old woman, story · What happens: hear, tell, know, want, begin, understand · To what, where: old woman, finger, childhood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, old woman, story), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Knight	det
2	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surprised	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Glen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Glen	det
5	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Knight	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surprised	punct
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	8 surprised	advmod
8	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 surprised	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 what	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wanted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wanted	cc
20	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 wanted	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 surprised	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 finger	nmod:poss
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wanted	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 childhood	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 childhood	nmod:poss
27	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wanted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wanted	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 understand	mark
31	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 true	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 true	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 true	cop
36	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 understand	ccomp
37	enough	enough	ADV	_	36 true	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	danger	the old woman			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	want	past		danger's finger	danger's childhood		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot finger=Theme
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	understand	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	the story			enough, true property	tree rules

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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