The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 84
‘Perhaps he knows me,’ answered the stable-boy.
Who acts: man · What happens: know, answer · To what, where: me, stable boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 knows | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 knows | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 10 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 stable | punct |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | man | me | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the stable boy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=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 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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