The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 8
‘I’ll dig a bit and see.’
Who acts: I · What happens: dig, see · To what, where: bit
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dig | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dig | aux |
| 4 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dig | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dig | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | I | a bit | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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