English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 58
“Ye can, can ye?” snarled the wolf, “we'll see about that!”
Who acts: we · What happens: snarl, see · To what, where: wolf
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 9 snarled | punct |
| 2 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snarled | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 can | conj |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 can | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 9 | snarled | snarl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snarled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 snarled | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 see | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 snarled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarl | past | the wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | we | about that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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