The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 89
And perhaps Lineik, who had not forgotten the past either, might have left her alone, to get on as best she could, had not Sigurd, her brother, implored her to help just once more.
Who acts: Lineik · What happens: not forget, leave, get on, have, implore, help · To what, where: past, Lineik, Sigurd
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lineik), 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 | _ | 8 forgotten | cc |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 Lineik | advmod |
| 3 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 forgotten | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 8 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 past | det |
| 10 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgotten | obj |
| 11 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | aux |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 forgotten | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 best | case |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 get | parataxis |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 best | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | parataxis |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 Sigurd | advmod |
| 29 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brother | punct |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Sigurd | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 implored | punct |
| 34 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 implored | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 help | mark |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 implored | advcl |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 once | advmod |
| 39 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 help | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 help | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · perfect | Lineik | the past | either property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | might · perfect | Lineik | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get on | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Sigurd | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient | |||||
| 5 | implore | past | Lineik | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | once property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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