The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 80

As to the wreath, I know not how it came there, unless it may be the gift of some doves whom I fed when they were starving!

Who acts: I, Wreath, doves · What happens: not know, come, be, feed, starve · To what, where: gift, doves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wreath, doves), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 wreath	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wreath	det
4	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wreath	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gift	punct
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 gift	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gift	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 gift	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 gift	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gift	det
19	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 doves	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 doves	det
22	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gift	nmod
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fed	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 fed	nsubj
25	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 doves	acl:relcl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 starving	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 starving	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 starving	aux
29	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fed	ccomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I			as the wreath	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past	Wreath		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	may	Wreath	the gift		of some doves	tree rules
4	feed	past	I	some doves			tree rules
5	starve	past · progressive	doves = dove				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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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