The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 44
But since I fell upon my head I can remember nothing.'
Who acts: I · What happens: fall, remember · To what, where: head, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remember | cc |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 fell | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remember | advcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 remember | aux |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 remember | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | I | my head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon head=Location | ||||
| 2 | remember | can | I | nothing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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