The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 68
‘There may’st thou see the King coming out to meet thee,’ said the brother, pointing to the sea-shore.
Who acts: thou, King, brother · What happens: see, come out, meet, say, point · To what, where: may’st, thee, sea shore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, King, brother), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 see | expl |
| 3 | may’st | may'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 coming | advcl |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brother | det |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pointing | punct |
| 19 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shore | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shore | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 24 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pointing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | thou | may’st | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come out | gerund | the King | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the King not said here | thee | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | point | gerund | the brother not said here | the sea shore | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shore=Recipient |
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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