The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 85
And then he had leisure to remember that he had once had a home, and a family, and that he should like to see them both again, and show them how well he could play.
Who acts: Tiidu, leisure · What happens: have, remember, like, see, show, play · To what, where: leisure, home, homes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, leisure), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remember | mark |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 remember | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 family | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 family | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 like | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 like | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 remember | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | xcomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | both | both | ADV | _ | 29 again | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 see | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 show | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 show | cc |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | parataxis |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 show | obj |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 well | advmod |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 play | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 play | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 play | aux |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 show | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tiidu | leisure | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | leisure not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | Tiidu | a home | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | |||
| 4 | like | should | Tiidu | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | homes = home | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | show | infinitive | homes = home | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | play | could | Tiidu | well property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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