The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 50
I have forgotten to buy the different coloured reels of cotton to match my clothes!’
Who acts: I · What happens: forget, not buy, match · To what, where: different coloured reels, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 buy | mark |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgotten | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reels | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reels | amod |
| 8 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reels | amod |
| 9 | reels | reel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buy | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cotton | case |
| 11 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reels | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 match | mark |
| 13 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 buy | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 match | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not buy | to-infinitive | I not said here | the different coloured reels of cotton | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | match | to-infinitive | I not said here | my clothes | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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