More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 73

So he could see where he was, and where the path was, and how he could get out of the marsh.

Who acts: thing, path · What happens: see, be, get out · To what, where: marsh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, path), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 was	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 was	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 get	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 marsh	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 marsh	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 marsh	det
23	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	could	thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	thing		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	the path		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get out	could	thing	the marsh	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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