The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 18

‘I always knew I should be promoted.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, promote · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 promoted	nsubj:pass
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 promoted	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 promoted	aux:pass
8	promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	I					always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	promote	should · passive		I					vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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