The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 104
‘Now you see, gentlemen,’ said her husband, ‘how far you can trust her, when she chatters like this.’
Who acts: you, husband, Mr. · What happens: see, say, trust, chatter · To what, where: gentlemen, Mr. · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husband, Mr.), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentlemen | punct |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trust | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 trust | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 trust | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 trust | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 trust | aux |
| 18 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trust | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chatters | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 chatters | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 chatters | nsubj |
| 23 | chatters | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trust | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 chatters | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | gentlemen | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gentleman=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mr.'s husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trust | can | you | Mr. | far property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | chatter | present | Mr. | like this | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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