The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 4
The other said, ‘Do you see that large cornfield there?
Who acts: other, you · What happens: say, see · To what, where: large cornfield · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 cornfield | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cornfield | amod |
| 11 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 see | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present · do-support | you | that large cornfield | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cornfield=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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