The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 87
Why, you know as well as I do that you have eaten them all up.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, do, eat up · To what, where: Jackal
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. 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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 know | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 eaten | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 eaten | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eaten | aux |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 do | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eaten | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 eaten | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat up | present · perfect | you | Jackal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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