The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 44

‘You are a wonderful cook,’ said the prince, ‘and you certainly know what is good.

Who acts: You, wonderful cook · What happens: be, say, know · To what, where: wonderful cook, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wonderful cook), 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	_	6 cook	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cook	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prince	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 good	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 know	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a wonderful cook		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a wonderful cook	the prince		tree rules
3	know	present	you		certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present			good 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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