The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 106
For in this town have I as yet seen no people.
Who acts: I · What happens: see · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | no people | yet | for this town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=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 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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