The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 79

And the giant answered, ‘Yes, I have seen him pass, but I have not seen him come back.

Who acts: giant, I · What happens: answer, see, pass, not see, come back · To what, where: giant · 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 (giant, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 seen	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 answered	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	obj
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 seen	advmod
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 answered	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	obj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	xcomp
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the giant		tree rules
2	see	present · perfect	I	giant	tree rules
3	pass	infinitive	giant not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	present · perfect	I	giant	tree rules
5	come back	infinitive	giant not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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