The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 50
“See, father,” he said; “see, my honoured mother, if this is not a masterpiece of work.
Who acts: Labakan, this · What happens: see, say, not be · To what, where: father, honoured mother, masterpiece · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, this), 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 | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mother | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 masterpiece | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 masterpiece | mark |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 masterpiece | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 masterpiece | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 masterpiece | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 masterpiece | det |
| 22 | masterpiece | masterpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 masterpiece | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Labakan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | my honoured mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this | a masterpiece | of work | 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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