The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 74
He said, ‘Haven’t you seen a stag about here?’
Who acts: stag, you · What happens: say, not see · To what, where: stag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 5 | Have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stag | det |
| 10 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 here | case |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 seen | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | stag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not see | infinitive · perfect | you | a stag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus |
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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