The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 95
“Why not?” he replied; “but first let me see your paws.”
Who acts: friend · What happens: reply, let, see · To what, where: friend, paws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Why | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 paws | nmod:poss |
| 16 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | friend | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | friend not said here | your paws | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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