The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 36
‘Stay still, and let me look about, and see what I never have seen before,’ said Petru again to his horse.
Who acts: me, I, Petru · What happens: stay, let, look, see, not see, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, I, Petru), 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 Stay | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stay | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stay | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seen | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 seen | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 see | ccomp |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 seen | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 said | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 again | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | me not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | not see | present · perfect | I | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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