The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 59
For he could imitate a lark so well, that no one knew which was Peronnik and which was the bird.
Who acts: Peronnik, one · What happens: imitate, know, be · To what, where: lark, Peronnik, bird
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, one), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 imitate | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 imitate | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imitate | aux |
| 4 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lark | det |
| 6 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imitate | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 imitate | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imitate | parataxis |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 Peronnik | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Peronnik | cop |
| 16 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bird | cc |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bird | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bird | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Peronnik | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate | could | Peronnik | a lark | well property | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lark=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Peronnik and the bird | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Peronnik and the bird | the bird | 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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