The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 97
‘Do you see anything now?’ it said after some time had gone by.
Who acts: you, glimpse, time · What happens: see, say, go by · To what, where: anything · 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 (you, glimpse, time), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 gone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | anything | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | glimpse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go by | past · perfect | some time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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