The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 82

I saw that last winter with your predecessor, and farther back still with his predecessors!

Who acts: I · What happens: see

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 winter	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 predecessor	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 predecessor	nmod:poss
8	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 farther	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 farther	cc
11	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 saw	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	13 still	advmod
13	still	still	ADV	_	11 farther	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 predecessors	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 predecessors	nmod:poss
16	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 farther	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I				winter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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