The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 126
In all his life Matte had never remembered such a night.
Who acts: Matte · What happens: not remember · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 life | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | obl |
| 5 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remembered | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 remembered | advmod |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 night | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | past · perfect | Matte | spray's life | night | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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