The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 136
‘Do you see this fig-tree?’ said the younger.
Who acts: you, younger · What happens: see, say · To what, where: fig tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, younger), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fig | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 younger | det |
| 13 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | this fig tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the younger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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