The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 83
Early the next morning the Magician sent for him, and said, ‘Let’s see now what you’ve learnt.
Who acts: Magician, ’s · What happens: send, say, let, see, learn · To what, where: ’s · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Magician, ’s), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Magician | det |
| 6 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 15 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Let | obj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Let | xcomp |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 learnt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 learnt | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 learnt | aux:pass |
| 22 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 see | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Magician | morning | for Milan; early property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Magician not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | ’s | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | ’s not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | learn | present · passive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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