The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 3

You were lost when you were a little girl and went out picking berries, and it was only the other day that we heard from a beaver where you were.”

Who acts: you, tree, we · What happens: lose, be, go out, pick, hear · To what, where: You, little girl, berries, other day

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tree, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 girl	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 girl	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
14	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 picking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 day	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 day	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 day	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 day	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 day	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl:unmarked
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 heard	obj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 day	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 beaver	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 beaver	det
28	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 were	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 were	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beaver	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		You		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is a	past	you	a little girl		tree rules
3	go out	past				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick	gerund		berries		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
5	is a	past	tree	the other day		tree rules
6	hear	past	we	the other day	from a beaver	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Topic from beaver=Source

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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