The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 6
“Don’t you remember how I always slept in your cot beside you, and how you cried till I came?
Who acts: you, Ingibjorg · What happens: not do, remember, sleep, cry, come · To what, where: cot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ingibjorg), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 slept | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 slept | advmod |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cot | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl |
| 13 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 slept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 cried | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | conj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | past | Ingibjorg | your cot | beside you; always property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cot=Location | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | Ingibjorg | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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