The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 118

If I have never yet handled either the plough or the scythe, at least I have often watched the country people work them, and know how easy it is.’

Who acts: I, people, country · What happens: not handle, watch, work, know, be · To what, where: plough, country, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people, country), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 handled	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 handled	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handled	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 handled	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 handled	advmod
6	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	either	either	CCONJ	_	9 plough	cc:preconj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plough	det
9	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handled	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 scythe	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 scythe	det
12	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plough	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watched	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 least	case
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 watched	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 watched	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watched	aux
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 watched	advmod
19	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 handled	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watched	obj
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 work	nsubj
23	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 country	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 work	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handled	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 easy	advmod
29	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 know	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 easy	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 easy	cop
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handled	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 handled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not handle	present · perfect	I	the plough or the scythe		yet		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme
2	watch	present · perfect	I	the country	least		often property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
3	work	present	people	plough				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material
4	know	present	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	country				easy 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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