The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 87
‘I am not quite certain,’ said the man, ‘but I think I see something coming in the far distance.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, say, think, see, come · To what, where: man, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 certain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 certain | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 certain | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 certain | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 certain | advmod |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 certain | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | ccomp |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 something | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 distance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 distance | det |
| 23 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 distance | amod |
| 24 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 certain | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | present | I | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | in the far distance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |
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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