The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 34
“I suppose you will tell us that you have watched well again this time,” said the brothers.
Who acts: brothers, you · What happens: suppose, tell, watch, say · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, you), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 watched | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 watched | aux |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 tell | advcl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 watched | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 watched | advmod |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brothers | det |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the brothers = brother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | you | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | present · perfect | you | again; time | well property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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