The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 83
She has touched the sacred tree which belongs to her mother and me alone.”
Who acts: use, sacred tree · What happens: touch, belong · To what, where: sacred tree
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, sacred tree), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | aux |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 belongs | nsubj |
| 8 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belongs | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 me | cc |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 belongs | conj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 belongs | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present · perfect | use | the sacred tree | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the sacred tree | to use's mother; alone property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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