The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 11
‘Do you see that great tree there?’ said the Witch, pointing to a tree beside them.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, say, point · To what, where: great tree, Witch, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Witch | det |
| 13 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointing | punct |
| 15 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointing | obl |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pointing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | that great tree | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | a tree | beside wars = war | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient |
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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