English Fairy Tales, VI. Mr. Vinegar., sentence 6
On surprising robbers, see preceding tale.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, precede · To what, where: surprising robbers, tale
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Mr. Vinegar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 robbers | case |
| 2 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robbers | amod |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 robbers | punct |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 see | xcomp |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preceding | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | surprising robbers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | precede | gerund | you not said here | tale | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Co-Theme |
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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