The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 1

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

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

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	present · perfect	You			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the wild duck			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			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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