More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 54
He will like hearing it, and by the time you are done you will have reached the foundation-stone."
Who acts: Seer, you · What happens: like, hear, do, reach · To what, where: story, you, foundation stone
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seer, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 like | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hearing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reached | aux |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 like | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 19 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stone | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 foundation | punct |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | future | Seer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | gerund | Seer not said here | story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reach | future · perfect | you | the foundation stone | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stone=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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