The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 68
But as far as I have seen and heard I cannot speak well of them.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, hear, not speak · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 speak | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 speak | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 far | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seen | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 speak | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 speak | advmod |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 speak | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 speak | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | participle | I not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | can | I | of doings = doing; far, well property | vn talk-37.5 «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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