The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 43
“And what did you see there?”
Who acts: you · What happens: see
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 see | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 see | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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