More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 54
"And will you tell me what you see in there?
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, see · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 see | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 there | case |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 see | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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