The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 23
‘Here you see their meat, and here you see their drink.’
Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: meat, drink
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 meat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 see | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 drink | nmod:poss |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | water's meat | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | water's drink | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=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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