Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 89

Now that I cannot see the white world," said he, "how can I see a black book?

Who acts: I, man · What happens: not see, say, see · To what, where: white world, black book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, 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, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 said	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 see	advmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 book	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 book	amod
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not see	can	I	the white world		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man		now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	can	I	a black book		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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