The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 108
With me went that dog you see, a faithful friend who never left me.
Who acts: me, you, faithful friend · What happens: go, see, not leave · To what, where: faithful friend, me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, you, faithful friend), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | compound |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 friend | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 10 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 left | advmod |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friend | acl:relcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 left | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | me | a faithful friend | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not leave | past | a faithful friend | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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