The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 25

But her father answered, ‘Oh, my dear child, you don’t know what you are talking about.’

Who acts: father, you · What happens: answer, not know, talk about · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 know	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Oh	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 talking	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 talking	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 talking	aux
20	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 know	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	20 talking	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	beast's father	tree rules
2	not know	present · do-support	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	talk about	present · progressive	you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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