The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 65
‘You don’t know about that,’ said the youth; ‘ I know well enough what it is that lies so heavy on your mind, and I know also of a plan to get the money paid.’
Who acts: You, I, stable, money, your · What happens: not know, say, know, be, get, pay · To what, where: youth, plan, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, stable, money), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 know | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 enough | advmod |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lies | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lies | cop |
| 22 | that | that | ADP | _ | 23 lies | case |
| 23 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 what | nsubj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 heavy | advmod |
| 25 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lies | amod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 mind | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mind | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heavy | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 know | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | conj |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 plan | advmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 plan | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 plan | det |
| 36 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 know | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 plan | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 money | det |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 get | obj |
| 41 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 get | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | You | about that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | stable | that lies | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | I | a plan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | the money | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pay | participle | the money not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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