The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 92
It might be only yesterday so well do I remember every word he spoke.
Who acts: earth, I, light · What happens: be, remember, speak · To what, where: yesterday, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, I, light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yesterday | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 yesterday | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yesterday | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 yesterday | advmod |
| 5 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 remember | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 remember | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 remember | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yesterday | acl:relcl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remember | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yesterday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might | earth | yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | present · do-support | I | every word | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | light | every word not said here | tree rules |
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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