More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 101
Look you and see if you know him."
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, know · To what, where: you, Lambton
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Look | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | you | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Lambton | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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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