The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 99

‘I know he had new boots on; I have heard them creaking in his grandmother’s room!’

Who acts: I, Kay, boots · What happens: know, have, hear, creak · To what, where: new boots, boots, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kay, boots), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	5 had	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 know	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 heard	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandmother	nmod:poss
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 room	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 grandmother	case
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creaking	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	Kay	new boots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
3	hear	present · perfect	I	boots = boot		tree rules
4	creak	gerund	boots = boot not said here		Kay's grandmother's room	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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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