The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 68
‘Who knows who this girl is?’ she said; ‘she cannot speak, and is not worthy of a king.’
Who acts: girl · What happens: know, be, say, not speak, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 knows | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 who | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 speak | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 speak | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 speak | advmod |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worthy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 worthy | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 worthy | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 worthy | advmod |
| 22 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worthy | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | this girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | can | girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | girl not said here | of a king; worthy 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 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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