The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 67

It remains to be seen what I shall get by it, except perhaps a good laugh when I see you come back with your head bent and your eyes on the ground.’

Who acts: bird, I, you, head · What happens: remain, see, get, come back, bend · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, I, you, head), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 seen	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remains	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 get	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laugh	punct
13	except	except	ADP	_	17 laugh	case
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 laugh	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 laugh	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 laugh	amod
17	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	parataxis
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 see	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remains	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bent	nsubj
27	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 come	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eyes	cc
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remains	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	remain	present	bird			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	bird not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	get	shall	I		by bird	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	see	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	come back	present	you	the ground		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
6	bend	participle	your head			vn assuming_position-50 «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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