The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 41
‘This stone looks pretty hard, but give it a blow with your spear and let us see what will happen.’
Who acts: stone, us · What happens: look, give, let, see, happen · To what, where: stone, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (stone, us), 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 looks | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 looks | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looks | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 spear | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happen | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 happen | aux |
| 22 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | this stone | hard property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | this stone not said here | stone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | this stone not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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