The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 63

But Susan replied, ‘I always told you our old dog was the best dog in the world--but as usual you thought you knew so much better.

Who acts: Susan, I, old dog, you · What happens: reply, tell, be, think, know · To what, where: you, best dog, world · 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, I, old dog, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 replied	cc
2	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dog	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dog	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 usual	case
23	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thought	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thought	ccomp
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 better	advmod
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 knew	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Susan					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a	past	our old dog	the best dog		the world		tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	you				as usual	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	know	past	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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