The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 109
‘If thou hadst remembered how I thatched the byre, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon again; and as he spoke three more grains fell, and for the third time they were eaten by the silver pigeon.
Who acts: I, flame, three more grains, silver pigeon, my · What happens: remember, thatch, 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 thatched | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thatched | nsubj |
| 8 | thatched | thatch | 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 thatched | 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 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 cooed | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 spoke | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 spoke | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 spoke | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 spoke | nsubj |
| 30 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cooed | parataxis |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 grains | nummod |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 grains | amod |
| 33 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spoke | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 eaten | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 eaten | cc |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 eaten | obl |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 eaten | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 eaten | aux:pass |
| 43 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cooed | advcl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 pigeon | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 pigeon | det |
| 46 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pigeon | compound |
| 47 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 eaten | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cooed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | thatch | past | I | the byre | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent byre=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | would · perfect · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | coo | past | the golden pigeon | again | 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 · passive | the silver pigeon | grains = grain | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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