The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 99
I knew very well on the first sight of me that could be got, I would be shot like a dog.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, get, shoot, sight · To what, where: first sight, I, me
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 sight | amod |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 got | obl |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 got | aux:pass |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sight | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shot | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 shot | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shot | aux:pass |
| 19 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | advcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 dog | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shot | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | the first sight of me | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | get | could · passive | the first sight of me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | shoot | would · passive | I | like a dog | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | me | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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