The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 62

The artful woman, who at once understood her master, answered, ‘Certainly I have.

Who acts: artful woman, I · What happens: understand, answer, have · To what, where: master

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (artful woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 understood	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 understood	obl
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 understood	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the artful woman	woman's master		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I		certainly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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