The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 92
‘Now, then,’ said the Foal, ‘dost thou not see anything now?’
What happens: say, do, not see · To what, where: Foal, thou, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Foal | det |
| 9 | Foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dost | obj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dost | xcomp |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 see | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Foal | now; then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foal=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not see | infinitive | anything | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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