The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 61

‘Yes, we have seen that,’ said both children; they knew that it was true.

Who acts: we, children, name · What happens: see, say, know, be · To what, where: that, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, children, name), 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	_	6 seen	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 seen	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 seen	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 true	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 true	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knew	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	we	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past		both children		tree rules
3	know	past	children = child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	name		true property	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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