The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 70

‘Ah, Petru, my son, I knew you would have to come back,’ she cried.

Who acts: Petru, you, Birscha · What happens: know, have, come back, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, you, Birscha), 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	_	10 knew	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 Petru	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Petru	punct
4	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Petru	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
18	’	'	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	past	Petru	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	would	you	tree rules
3	come back	to-infinitive	you not said here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	Birscha	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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