The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 42

‘Do you know, old woman!’ said he one day to his wife, ‘I must go out into the world and try to bring back food somehow, though I cannot tell where it is to come from.’

Who acts: you, Stan, I, food · What happens: know, say, day, go out, try, bring back · To what, where: world, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Stan, I, food), 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 know	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	vocative
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 day	nsubj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 try	cc
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bring	mark
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 try	xcomp
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
32	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 tell	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 tell	advmod
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bring	conj
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 come	advmod
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 come	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 come	mark
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tell	ccomp
44	from	from	ADP	_	43 come	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	you			old woman vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	day		Stan			to Stan's wife	tree rules
4	go out	must	I		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	try	infinitive	I not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	food		somehow property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
7	not tell speech: assert	can	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	is not said to happen	present	food			come 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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