The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 93

‘Yes,’ said Cinderlad; ‘now I see something like a bluish streak, far, far away.’

Who acts: Cinderlad, I · What happens: say, see · To what, where: something · 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: who acts (Cinderlad, I), 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 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 see	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 see	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 streak	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 streak	det
15	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 streak	amod
16	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 far	punct
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 see	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 away	punct
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 away	advmod
21	away	away	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	I	something			now	like a bluish streak; far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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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