English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 6
What! you don't know what's a Bogle or a Redcap!
Who acts: you · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: Bogle
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 know | obj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 Bogle | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Bogle | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Bogle | det |
| 10 | Bogle | Bogle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | parataxis |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Redcap | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Redcap | det |
| 13 | Redcap | Redcap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bogle | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a Bogle or a Redcap | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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