The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 42
‘Well, you can see what kind of Queen mine is, but I can’t see yours.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, be, not see · To what, where: kind, yours
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mine | case |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mine | compound |
| 11 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | conj |
| 19 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | what kind | of Queen mine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | can | I | yours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer your=Stimulus |
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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