The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63
“But I SAW you walking,” continued the wolverine.
Who acts: rock, you · What happens: see, walk, continue · To what, where: you, wolverine
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, 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 | _ | 4 SAW | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 SAW | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 SAW | nsubj |
| 4 | SAW | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 continued | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 SAW | obj |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 SAW | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 SAW | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 SAW | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolverine | det |
| 11 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the rock = rock | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the wolverine | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolverine=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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