The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 42

“I see it,” answered she.

Who acts: I · What happens: see, answer · To what, where: hill, Command · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. 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	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	I	hill					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			Command				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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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