The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 104

“You have forgotten,” answered the wood-pigeon, “the proverb that runs, ‘mountain and mountain can never meet, but one living creature can always come across another.’”

Who acts: You, wood pigeon, proverb, mountain, one living creature · What happens: forget, answer, run, not meet, come · To what, where: proverb, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wood pigeon, proverb, mountain), 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	_	4 forgotten	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 answered	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pigeon	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigeon	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
11	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proverb	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 proverb	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 proverb	det
15	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigeon	appos
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 runs	nsubj
17	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proverb	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 runs	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 proverb	punct
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mountain	cc
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mountain	conj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 meet	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 meet	advmod
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proverb	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 creature	nummod
29	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 creature	amod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 come	advmod
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
34	across	across	ADP	_	35 another	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present · perfect	You				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the wood pigeon				tree rules
3	run in a quote	present	the proverb				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not meet in a quote	can	mountain and mountain	the proverb not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proverb=Co-Agent
5	come in a quote	can	one living creature		another	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across another=Initial_Location

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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