The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 143
‘You can see for yourself,’ answered Stan, going quietly on with his work.
Who acts: You, Stan · What happens: see, answer, go, work · To what, where: Stan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Stan), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 on | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | You | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Stan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | with Stan's work | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with work=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | work | Stan | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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