The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 83

“These shoes were quite new when I left Rome,” he said, “and look at them now; that will tell you whether you are far from it or not.”

Who acts: shoes, Rome, that, you · What happens: be, leave, say, look, tell · To what, where: Rome, you, shoe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, Rome, that, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 shoes	det
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 new	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 new	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 new	advmod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 left	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
10	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 look	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 look	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 look	cc
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 look	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 tell	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	30 far	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 far	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 far	cop
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 tell	ccomp
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 far	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 not	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 far	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	this shoes					new property	tree rules
2	leave in a quote	past	Rome	Rome					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Rome						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	infinitive					now	at men = man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	is in a quote	present	you			shoe		far property	tree rules

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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