The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 86
I will stand on the horse block yonder and thou canst see me though I cannot see thee.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: stand, see, not see · To what, where: horse block, me, thee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 block | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 block | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 block | compound |
| 7 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 8 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 3 stand | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | advcl |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | future | I | the horse block | yonder property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on block=Location | |||
| 2 | see | can | thou | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | can | I | thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=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 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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