Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 15
Come in, and I will see what I can do for you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come in, see, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | can | I | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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