The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 48
‘You didn’t expect to see me here, that is clear!
Who acts: You, that · What happens: not expect, see, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, that), 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 | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expect | advmod |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expect | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clear | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 clear | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clear | cop |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expect | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · do-support | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | clear property | tree rules |
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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