The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 79

‘You poor thing! what is there to see here compared with what _we_ have seen at the palace?

Who acts: You, we · What happens: thing, see, compare · To what, where: poor thing, palace

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we), 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	_	4 thing	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thing	nsubj
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 compared	nsubj:pass
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 compared	aux:pass
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 is	advcl
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 compared	advmod
12	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 compared	obl
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
17	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 what	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 compared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thing		You			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	compare	present · passive		poor thing	here	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with what=Co-Patient
4	see	perfect	we		the palace	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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