The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 51

‘You are getting worse, my dear,’ she said; ‘you are quite pale now; you have a serious illness about you; I can see it by your looks.’

Who acts: You, wool, I · What happens: get, say, be, have, see · To what, where: serious illness, illness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wool, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 getting	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dear	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dear	nmod:poss
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pale	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 pale	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 pale	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pale	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 pale	advmod
18	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 pale	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 illness	det
24	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 illness	amod
25	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 illness	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 looks	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 looks	nmod:poss
35	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 see	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	You			bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	wool				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	you		now	pale property	tree rules
4	have	present	you	a serious illness		about you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient
5	see	can	I	illness		by your looks	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/51/