The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 19

The boy, not knowing what else to do, answered, ‘All right; you begin.’

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: not know, do, answer, begin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knowing	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 knowing	advmod
5	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boy	acl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knowing	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
14	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 right	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 begin	nsubj
18	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not know	gerund	the boy not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	answer speech: assert	past	the boy	tree rules
4	begin	present	you	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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