The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 65
There is a wood yonder, and the moment I enter it I shall forget everything that ever happened between us, just as if I was born yesterday.
Who acts: wood, I, moment · What happens: be, enter, forget, happen, bear · To what, where: wood, everything, I
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, I, moment), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forget | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forget | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forget | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 enter | nsubj |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 moment | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enter | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 forget | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 forget | aux |
| 15 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 forget | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 happened | advmod |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 everything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 happened | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 born | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 born | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 born | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 born | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 forget | parataxis |
| 29 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 born | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a wood | there | yonder property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | enter | present | I | wood | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | forget | shall | the moment | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | ever | between us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between we=Location | ||||
| 5 | bear a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | yesterday | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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