The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 28
The Editor never saw any himself, but he knows several people who have seen them--in the Highlands--and heard their music.
Who acts: Editor, several people · What happens: not see, know, see, hear · To what, where: Editor, several people, Highlands, people, music
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Editor, several people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Editor | det |
| 2 | Editor | Editor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 himself | reparandum |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 knows | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knows | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Highlands | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Highlands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Highlands | det |
| 20 | Highlands | Highland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 knows | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 music | nmod:poss |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | the Editor | Editor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | present | Editor | several people | the Highlands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | several people | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | the Editor not said here | Highlands's music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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