The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 50

But Susan answered, ‘There, you see, I always said our cat was a most excellent creature--but you men always think you know best.’

Who acts: Susan, you, I, cat · What happens: answer, see, say, be, think, know · To what, where: excellent creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Susan, you, I, cat), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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