The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 31
I see you have lived long in this world; do you know anything about the three bulrushes?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, live, know · To what, where: world, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | aux |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 bulrushes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulrushes | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bulrushes | nummod |
| 18 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 anything | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | you | this world | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 3 | know | present · do-support | you | anything | about the three bulrushes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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