The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 154

‘We’ll very soon see about that!’

Who acts: We · What happens: 'll, see

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 ’ll	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’ll	nsubj
3	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ’ll	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 see	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ’ll	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’ll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	'll	present	We						tree rules
2	see	present	We not said here					about that; soon property	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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