English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 43

“Shade your eyes with your hand, and you'll soon see a man flying away from you.”

Who acts: you, man · What happens: shade, see, fly away · To what, where: eyes, man

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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	_	2 Shade	punct
2	Shade	shade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Shade	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shade	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Shade	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 flying	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 flying	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Shade	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shade in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your eyes	with your hand	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary
2	see in a quote	future	you	a man	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	fly away in a quote	gerund	a man not said here		from you; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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