The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 65

‘How was that?’ says the knight; ‘I would be glad to hear it, for it seems impossible.’

Who acts: that, I, it · What happens: be, say, hear, seem · To what, where: knight, eldest · 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 (that, I, it), 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	_	3 was	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 was	advmod
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 was	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 glad	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hear	mark
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seems	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 seems	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seems	nsubj
22	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	conj
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 seems	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	past	that			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		the knight		tree rules
3	is	would	I		glad property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here	eldest = eld		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	seem	present	it		impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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