The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 52

I am sure we have heard her before!’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: cow

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sure	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					sure property	tree rules
2	hear	present · perfect	we	cow				before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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