The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 7

‘I look upon you, my father,’ she answered, ‘as I look upon salt in my food.’

Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: look, answer · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess), 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 look	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	ccomp
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 look	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 salt	case
19	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 food	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	I		upon you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon you=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	Princess			tree rules
3	look	present	I	my food	upon salt	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon salt=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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