Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 78
Didn't you see the gold with your own two eyes?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not see · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eyes | nummod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | you | the gold | with your own two eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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