The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 96

“Where are we going, sir?” says I. “You’ll soon know,” says he; and he drew his fingers across my eyes, and not a ray could I see.

Who acts: we, You, infant, ray · What happens: go, say, know, draw, not see · To what, where: I., infant, fingers, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, You, infant, ray), 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 going	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 going	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sir	punct
7	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	I.	I.	X	Foreign=Yes	10 says	obj
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 says	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drew	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fingers	nmod:poss
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drew	obj
27	across	across	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 see	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ray	det
34	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drew	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	we			sir vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	present		I.			tree rules
3	know in a quote	future	You			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present		infant			tree rules
5	draw	past	infant	infant's fingers	my eyes		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
6	not see	could	a ray				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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