The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 29

‘I shall tell you then,’ said Olof, ‘for I know all about it.

Who acts: I, Olof · What happens: tell, say, know · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Olof), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Olof	Olof	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	all	all	ADV	_	15 know	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	I	you	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Olof				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I			about castle; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=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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