English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 12
And, as you passed me, Mr. Fox, I thought I saw you try and get off her diamond ring, and when you could not, Mr. Fox, it seemed to me in my dream, that you out with your sword and hacked off the poor lady's hand to get the ring.”
Who acts: you, I, it, my · What happens: pass, think, see, try, get off, seem · To what, where: me, you, diamond ring, hand, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, it, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fox | punct |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | compound |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 ring | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ring | nmod:poss |
| 21 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ring | amod |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 seemed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 seemed | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 could | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 seemed | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 could | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fox | punct |
| 30 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Fox | compound |
| 31 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 could | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 could | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 seemed | nsubj |
| 34 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 seemed | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 dream | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 dream | nmod:poss |
| 39 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seemed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sword | punct |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 sword | nsubj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 sword | nsubj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 you | compound:prt |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 sword | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 sword | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dream | appos |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 hacked | cc |
| 48 | hacked | hack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 sword | conj |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 54 hand | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 lady | det |
| 51 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 lady | amod |
| 52 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 hand | nmod:poss |
| 53 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 52 lady | case |
| 54 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hacked | obl |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 get | mark |
| 56 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 hacked | advcl |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 ring | det |
| 58 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 get | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 sword | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | you | me | Mr. Fox obl | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | get off | infinitive | you not said here | Fox's diamond ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | seem | could | it | me | in my dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in dream=Attribute | |||
| 7 | hack off | participle | the poor lady's hand | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Product | |||||
| 8 | get | to-infinitive | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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