The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 20
‘Don’t you remember our three babes that are still alive?’
Who acts: you, three babes · What happens: not do, remember, be · To what, where: three babes
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, three babes), 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 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 babes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 babes | nummod |
| 8 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remember | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 alive | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 alive | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 alive | advmod |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 babes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | 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 | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember | present | you | our three babes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | our three babes | still | alive property | 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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