The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 108

‘If thou hadst remembered how I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon, and as he spoke three more grains fell, and the silver pigeon ate them as before.

Who acts: I, flame, three more grains, silver pigeon, my · What happens: remember, clean, give, coo, speak, fall · To what, where: thou, byre, golden pigeon, grains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flame, three more grains, silver pigeon), 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	_	15 given	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 remembered	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 remembered	nsubj
4	hadst	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	aux:pass
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 given	advcl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cleaned	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 cleaned	nsubj
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 byre	det
10	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 given	nsubj:pass
13	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cooed	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 given	obj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 share	nmod:poss
18	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 given	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 cooed	punct
21	cooed	coo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pigeon	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pigeon	amod
24	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cooed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spoke	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spoke	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 spoke	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	nsubj
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cooed	conj
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 grains	nummod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 grains	amod
32	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 spoke	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ate	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pigeon	det
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pigeon	compound
38	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ate	nsubj
39	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cooed	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ate	obj
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 before	advmod
42	before	before	ADV	_	39 ate	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cooed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		thou		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	clean	past	I	the byre		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent byre=Patient
3	give	would · perfect · passive		thou		tree rules
4	coo	past		the golden pigeon		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past	flame			tree rules
6	fall	past	three more grains			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat	past	the silver pigeon	grains = grain	before property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	share		my			nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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