The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 72
‘We have as good as seen it,’ said the students.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, see, say · To what, where: maiden, students · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 good | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 students | det |
| 13 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | We not said here | maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the students | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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