Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 48
"Who knows," they replied, "who committed the crime?"
Who acts: murderers · What happens: know, reply, commit · To what, where: crime · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murderers), 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 | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 committed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 committed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 committed | nsubj |
| 11 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crime | det |
| 13 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 committed | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | murderers = murderer | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | commit in a quote | past | the crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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