English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 22
“Poor fellow, get up; let me see what ails you.”
Who acts: Poor fellow, Dick · What happens: get up, let, see, ail · To what, where: Dick, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor fellow, Dick), 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 ails | nsubj |
| 12 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ails | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | infinitive | Poor fellow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Poor fellow not said here | Dick | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | Dick not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | ail in a quote | present | you | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=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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