More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 78
But see here; thou didn't cut out thy mother's heart, did thou?"
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: see, not cut out, do · To what, where: heart, thou
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 see | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cut | advmod |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | advcl |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not cut out | past · do-support | thou | thy mother's heart | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do | past | thou not said here | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
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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