The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 130

‘Well, this time you had better go to the wolves,’ said she, not knowing that the prince had heard all she had been saying.

Who acts: you, mare, prince · What happens: have, go, say, not know, hear · To what, where: time, wolves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mare, prince), 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	_	9 go	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl:unmarked
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 had	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wolves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolves	det
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knowing	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 knowing	advmod
19	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 heard	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 knowing	ccomp
25	all	all	ADV	_	29 saying	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saying	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saying	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 saying	aux
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 heard	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	you	this time not said here			well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient
2	go	infinitive			the wolves	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wolf=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	mare					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know	gerund	mare not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hear	past · perfect	the prince					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	mare				all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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