The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 35

‘I saw you come in, but the work was pressing, and I could not stop to speak to you.

Who acts: I, you, work · What happens: see, come in, press, not stop, speak · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, work), 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	_	3 saw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pressing	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 pressing	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 work	det
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pressing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pressing	aux
12	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stop	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stop	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 stop	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 stop	advmod
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stop	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 speak	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come in	present	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	press	past · progressive	the work		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	not stop	could	I		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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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