The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 60

‘Ay,’ said the peasant, ‘now I can see how clever our clerk is.

Who acts: I, clerk · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: peasant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clerk), 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ay	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 see	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 clever	advmod
15	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 see	ccomp
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 clerk	nmod:poss
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clever	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 clever	cop
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the peasant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic
2	see	can	I		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	our clerk			clever property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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