The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 75
The first word he said to the lad was, ‘Have you seen her?’
Who acts: lad · What happens: say, see · To what, where: first word, lad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lad), 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 | 3 word | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 word | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lad | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 12 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | lad | the first word not said here | the lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to lad=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the first word | 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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