The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 28
‘What do I see?’ he cried; ‘this spindle seems to wish to point out the way to me.’
Who acts: I, son, spindle · What happens: see, cry, seem, wish, point out · To what, where: way, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, spindle), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 see | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 spindle | det |
| 13 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seems | nsubj |
| 14 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wish | mark |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seems | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 point | mark |
| 18 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 point | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 point | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 point | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | son | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | this spindle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | wish | to-infinitive | this spindle not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | point out not said to happen | to-infinitive | this spindle not said here | the way | me | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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