The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 147
“See here,” opening the false merchant’s garment and showing the dagger; “see what an enemy you have entertained!
Who acts: you, enemy · What happens: see, open, show, entertain · To what, where: garment, dagger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enemy), 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 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 See | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 See | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 8 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merchant | amod |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 11 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showing | cc |
| 13 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 opening | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dagger | det |
| 15 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showing | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 entertained | obj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 enemy | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entertained | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 entertained | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 entertained | aux |
| 24 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 see | ccomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | imperative | you not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | you not said here | the false merchant's garment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | you not said here | the dagger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dagger=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | entertain in a quote | present · perfect | a enemy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=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 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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