More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 35
"Stop, stop, I see my sweetheart coming!
Who acts: you, hangman, sweetheart · What happens: stop, see, come · To what, where: sweetheart
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hangman, sweetheart), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 see | xcomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | hangman | my sweetheart | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | gerund | my sweetheart not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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