More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 4

"We'll see about that," said the giant.

Who acts: We · What happens: see, say · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	4 see	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	We					about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant					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: «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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