The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 95
‘Yes; I am not quite certain,’ said the man, ‘but I think I can catch a glimpse of something far, far away.’
Who acts: I, man · What happens: not be, say, think, catch, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, 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, man), 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 | _ | 8 certain | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 certain | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 certain | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 certain | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 certain | advmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 certain | advmod |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 certain | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 certain | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 catch | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 catch | aux |
| 21 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 glimpse | det |
| 23 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 catch | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 something | case |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 glimpse | nmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 away | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 far | punct |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 away | advmod |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 something | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | 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 that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | can | I | a glimpse of something | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | glimpse | something | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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