The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 18
‘Don’t you remember, prince, that I was your wedded wife for four years?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, remember, wed, be · To what, where: prince, wedded wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | 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 | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wife | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wife | cop |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wed | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | I | your wedded wife | year | tree rules |
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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