The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 11
‘Have you seen a stag and some deerhounds go by?’ she asked.
Who acts: you, deerhounds, woman · What happens: see, go by, ask · To what, where: stag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, deerhounds, woman), 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 seen | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stag | det |
| 6 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 go | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 deerhounds | det |
| 9 | deerhounds | deerhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | you | a stag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go by | present | some deerhounds | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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 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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