The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 56

“You should just see what he does!” one said to her neighbour.

Who acts: neighbour, husband, see one · What happens: see, do, say · To what, where: neighbour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, husband, see one), 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	_	5 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	amod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 does	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 neighbour	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neighbour	nmod:poss
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	see in a quote	should	two's neighbour = neighbour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do in a quote	present	husband		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: express	past	see one	two's neighbour	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient

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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