The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 18

No, the first time I see him, it’s all up with him, I can tell you.’

Who acts: I · What happens: see, tell · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl:unmarked
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ’s	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ’s	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 up	advmod
13	up	up	ADV	_	11 ’s	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ’s	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	husband			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	can	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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