The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 32

Not a word do I understand of all their pratings about love, and who knows what dull things besides, which, I declare to you, I cannot even remember.’

Who acts: word, I · What happens: understand, know, beside, declare, not remember · To what, where: things besides, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (word, I), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 word	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 pratings	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 pratings	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pratings	nmod:poss
10	pratings	prating	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understand	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 love	case
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pratings	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knows	cc
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	parataxis
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 besides	nsubj
18	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 besides	compound
20	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knows	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declare	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 declare	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 declare	nsubj
25	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 besides	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 declare	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remember	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 remember	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 remember	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 remember	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 remember	advmod
33	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knows	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	understand	present · do-support	a word			of people's pratings about love	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of prating=Stimulus
2	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	beside						tree rules
4	declare speech: other	present	I	things besides	you		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to you=Recipient
5	not remember	can	I				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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