The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 51
‘Oh, you don’t know that,’ answered Esben.
Who acts: you · What happens: not know, answer · To what, where: Esben · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 answered | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 that | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Esben | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent esben=Eventuality |
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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