The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 14

But, see, he is returning; and now we shall hear how he has sped.'

Who acts: you, husband, we · What happens: see, return, hear, speed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 see	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 returning	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returning	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 returning	aux
7	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 see	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hear	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sped	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sped	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sped	aux
17	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 hear	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	return	present · progressive	husband		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	shall	we	now	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	speed	present · perfect	husband		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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