The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 66
‘Now, watch us,’ they said, ‘and run just as we do.’
Who acts: eyes, we · What happens: watch, say, run, do · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, we), 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 watch | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 watch | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 watch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 watch | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 watch | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 run | cc |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | us | now | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | eyes = eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | present | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/16/66/