The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 207

You see, my child, how wise you were in doing what I told you.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: see, do, tell · To what, where: child, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wise	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wise	advmod
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 doing	mark
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wise	parataxis
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	present	You	my child		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	do	past · progressive	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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