The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 50
“Anne, sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?”
Who acts: Anne, anyone · What happens: see, come · To what, where: anyone
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, anyone), 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 | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 2 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Anne | punct |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Anne | compound |
| 5 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anne | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | Anne and sister Anne | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | anyone 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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