The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 45
We shall soon see what his talk is worth.”
Who acts: We, talk, fellow · What happens: see, be, talk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, talk, fellow), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 worth | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 talk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 9 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | We | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fellow's talk | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | fellow | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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