The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 93

‘Would you know that fish?’ said the troll.

Who acts: you, fish · What happens: know, say · To what, where: troll · 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, fish), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 troll	det
11	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	fish	the troll					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent troll=Topic

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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