The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 60
So, goodbye for the present, you will soon see me back.”
Who acts: you · What happens: see back · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | vocative |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 present | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goodbye | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goodbye | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see back | future | you | me | goodbye for the present vocative; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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 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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