The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 32
If ever I saw a man who looked likely to do this, you are the one.
Who acts: I, man, you · What happens: see, look, do, be · To what, where: man, this, one
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 ever | mark |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 likely | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | a man | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | past | a man | likely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | a man not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | the one | tree rules |
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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