The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 15

‘Heaven only knows!’ replied the man; ‘seven years ago he was stolen from the market-place, and we have heard no more of him.’

Who acts: Heaven, man, we · What happens: know, reply, steal, hear · To what, where: man, market place, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, man, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 knows	advmod
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knows	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stolen	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 stolen	punct
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 stolen	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stolen	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stolen	aux:pass
17	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knows	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	22 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 place	det
20	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 market	punct
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stolen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knows	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 more	det
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 heard	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 more	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	Heaven				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	past	the man				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	steal	past · passive		man	the market place	ago property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from place=Source
4	hear	present · perfect	we	no more			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=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 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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