English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 31
“Ah, you see too much,” said he; “now, pray, with which eye do you see all this?”
Who acts: you, fellow · What happens: see, say, pray · To what, where: much, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fellow), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 pray | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 16 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eye | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eye | case |
| 19 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 20 eye | det |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obl |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pray | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 this | det:predet |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | infinitive | now | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | this | with which eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
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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