The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 76

He himself knew so much about the bird’s ways that if he only got to see it he could tell at once what it lacked.

Who acts: king, way · What happens: know, get, see, tell, lack · To what, where: much, way · 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 (king, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1616): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 He	nmod:unmarked
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 ways	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ways	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 bird	case
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 much	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 tell	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 got	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 got	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 tell	obl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 lacked	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lacked	nsubj
26	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	king	much	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	king		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	king not said here	way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	could	king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lack	past	way		tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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