The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 111
‘Do I know them indeed?’ answered the yard-dog.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, answer · To what, where: eyes, yard dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dog | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 yard | punct |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | I | eyes = eye | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the yard dog | tree rules |
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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