The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 59

I know the dish quite well: we often had it at home, and I can guess pretty well how it was made.’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: know, have, guess, make · To what, where: dish, friend, home

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dish	det
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 know	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guess	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 guess	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 guess	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 guess	aux
18	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
19	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	20 well	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 guess	advmod
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 made	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 guess	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	the dish		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus
2	have	past	we	friend	home	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	guess	can	I			well property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	make	past · passive		friend			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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