The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 114

‘Well, I don’t know,’ said his wife, ‘our clerk is tremendously learned, and knows much more than his Paternoster, and I could almost believe that he might be able to teach Peter to talk, for Peter has a wonderfully good head too.

Who acts: I, wife, clerk, Peter · What happens: not know, say, learn, know, believe, be · To what, where: clerk, Peter, good head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, clerk, Peter), 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	_	7 know	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 clerk	nmod:poss
16	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learned	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux:pass
18	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	19 learned	advmod
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wife	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knows	cc
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 knows	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 Paternoster	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Paternoster	nmod:poss
27	Paternoster	paternoster	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 believe	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 believe	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 believe	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	aux
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 believe	advmod
33	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knows	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 able	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 able	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 able	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 believe	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 teach	mark
40	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 teach	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 talk	mark
43	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 teach	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 has	punct
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 has	mark
46	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 has	nsubj
47	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 head	det
49	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	50 good	advmod
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 head	amod
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 has	obj
52	too	too	ADV	_	47 has	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	learn	present · passive	Peter's wife not said here	our clerk		tremendously property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	believe	could	I			almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	might	clerk			able property	tree rules
7	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	clerk not said here		Peter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient clause=Topic
8	talk	to-infinitive	clerk not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	present	Peter	a good head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 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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