Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 31

“I don’t know what you see,” said the clerk, “but what I see I never did see before, and I wish I did not see it now.”

Who acts: clerk, you · What happens: not know, see, say, not see, wish · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, 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	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 see	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clerk	det
13	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	parataxis
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 see	advmod
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	ccomp
24	before	before	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wish	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wish	nsubj
28	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	conj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wish	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	obj
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 see	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the clerk = clerk				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the clerk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	present	the clerk = clerk				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not see in a quote	past · do-support	the clerk = clerk			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	wish in a quote	present	the clerk = clerk				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	not see in a quote	past · do-support	the clerk = clerk	sound	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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