The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 35
‘I know that,’ said the fox, ‘for it was I who struck you over the arm.’
Who acts: I, way · What happens: know, say, be, strike · To what, where: fox, you, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 I | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 I | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 I | cop |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 struck | nsubj |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 struck | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 arm | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 arm | det |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | way | for I | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | I | you | the arm | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument |
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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