The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 110
You see for yourself, gentlemen, how far you can believe her.’
Who acts: You · What happens: see, believe · To what, where: wife
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 yourself | case |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 see | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentlemen | punct |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 yourself | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 believe | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | believe | can | you | wife | far property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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