The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 15
Then the hermit looked out and saw how near they were, and he said to the youth, ‘Do you see that?’
Who acts: hermit, sailors, you · What happens: look out, see, be, say · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, sailors, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hermit | det |
| 3 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 were | advmod |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 were | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the hermit | then | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the hermit not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | sailors = sailor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | hermit | to the youth | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to youth=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see | present · do-support | you | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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 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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