The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 110

‘If thou hadst remembered how I got the magpie’s nest, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon.

Who acts: thou, I, golden pigeon, my · What happens: remember, get, give, coo, share · To what, where: nest, share, me · 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 (thou, I, golden pigeon, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2675): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 remembered	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
4	hadst	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	aux
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 given	advcl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magpie	det
10	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nest	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 magpie	case
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj
15	wouldst	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 cooed	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 given	iobj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 share	nmod:poss
20	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
23	cooed	coo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pigeon	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pigeon	amod
26	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cooed	nsubj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 cooed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	remember a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	thou			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past	I	the magpie's nest		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus
3	give	future · perfect	thou	my share	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=Theme
4	coo	past	the golden pigeon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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