The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 31
‘Look and see who is behind you,’ it said; and the young man looked.
Who acts: pace, young man · What happens: look, see, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pace, young man), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Look | conj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 you | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 you | cop |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | behind you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | pace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | past | the young man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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