The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 53
“Sister, what do you see? do you see old times coming back?”
Who acts: you, Sister, old times · What happens: see, come back · To what, where: Sister
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Sister, old times), 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 Sister | punct |
| 2 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 see | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Sister | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sister | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 times | acl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | Sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | Sister | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | gerund | old times not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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