The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 30

‘Down there in the city we have peeped in at the windows, we know where they go!

Who acts: city, we, windows · What happens: peep in, know, go · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, we, windows), 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 there	punct
2	Down	down	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 there	obl
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 peeped	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 peeped	aux
9	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 city	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 peeped	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 windows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 windows	det
13	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 peeped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 there	parataxis
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 go	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	ccomp
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	peep in	present · perfect · passive	the city not said here	we	at the windows	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at window=Stimulus
2	know	present	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	present	windows = window			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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