More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 62
A jolly shake-hands, and the uncle tells him it's very probable he shall see him again soon when he is not aware of it.
Who acts: uncle, head, Prince · What happens: tell, be, see, not be · To what, where: Prince, uncle · 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 (uncle, head, Prince), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shake | det |
| 2 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shake | amod |
| 3 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hands | punct |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shake | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tells | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tells | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 uncle | det |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | nsubj |
| 10 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shake | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tells | iobj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 probable | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 probable | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 probable | advmod |
| 15 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tells | ccomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 probable | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 see | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 see | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 aware | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 aware | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 aware | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 aware | advmod |
| 26 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 aware | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the uncle | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | head | probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | Prince | uncle | again | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | not is | present | Prince | of head; aware property | 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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