The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 29
I know neither my country nor my parents, and the only thing I can say for certain is that I am called Serpentine.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, say, call · To what, where: only thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 country | nmod:poss |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 parents | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 country | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 certain | case |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 say | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 called | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 know | parataxis |
| 24 | Serpentine | Serpentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | neither my country nor my parents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | I | the only thing not said here | for certain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | the only thing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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