The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 72

‘We know who is going to have soup and pancakes; we know who is going to have porridge and sausages--isn’t it interesting?’

Who acts: We · What happens: know, go, have, not be · To what, where: soup, porridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 interesting	parataxis
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 going	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 know	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pancakes	cc
11	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 soup	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 going	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 know	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sausages	cc
22	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 porridge	conj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 interesting	cop
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 interesting	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 interesting	expl
27	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 interesting	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	We			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	present · progressive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	to-infinitive		soup and pancakes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
4	know	present	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	present · progressive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	to-infinitive		porridge and sausages		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
7	not is	present			interesting 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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