Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 120

"See my lord and my lady!" the jailer would say when he saw them.

Who acts: jailer · What happens: see, say · To what, where: lord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jailer), 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lord	nmod:poss
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lady	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lady	nmod:poss
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lord	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jailer	det
11	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive	the jailer not said here	my lord and my lady	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	would	the jailer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	jailer	lord	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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: «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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