The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 110
'Well, but I don't see how I am to get to you1' said the Stalo, looking up and down.
Who acts: I, ' · What happens: not see, get, say, look up · To what, where: you1 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, '), 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 | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 get | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you1 | case |
| 15 | you1 | you1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 said | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Stalo | det |
| 19 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 down | cc |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 up | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | ' | you1 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you1=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | look up | gerund | ' not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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