The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 50

He seemed to understand me well enough, for he shook his head, though he made other signs to let me know that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment.

Who acts: person, me, I · What happens: seem, understand, shake, make, let, know · To what, where: good treatment, me, head, other signs, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, me, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 understand	mark
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 understand	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 understand	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 understand	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shook	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 shook	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shook	conj
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 signs	amod
19	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	ccomp
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drink	cc
30	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	conj
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 drink	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 treatment	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 treatment	cc
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 treatment	amod
36	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	person	good treatment		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	understand	to-infinitive	person not said here	me	enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	shake	past	person	person's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	make	past	person	other signs		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
5	let	to-infinitive	person not said here	me		tree rules
6	know	infinitive	me not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	should	I	meat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
8	drink	infinitive	I not said here		enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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