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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 111

Then the king’s son understood that they had come to remind him of what he had forgotten, and his lost memory came back, and he knew his wife, and kissed her.

Who acts: son, pigeons, lost memory, memory · What happens: understand, come, remind, forget, lose, come back · To what, where: son, wife, magpie · 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 (son, pigeons, lost memory, memory), 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

advmoddetnmod:posscasensubjmarknsubjauxccompmarkadvcliobjcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccnmod:possamodnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctccnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctccparataxisobjpunctrootThenADVtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNunderstoodVERBthatSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXcomeVERBtoPARTremindVERBhimPRONofADPwhatPRONhePRONhadAUXforgottenVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONlostVERBmemoryNOUNcameVERBbackADV,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONknewVERBhisPRONwifeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJkissedVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem6 understoodadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 kingdet
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing5 sonnmod:poss
4’s'sPART_3 kingcase
5sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing6 understoodnsubj
6understoodunderstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_10 comemark
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 comensubj
9hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 comeaux
10comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 understoodccomp
11totoPART_12 remindmark
12remindremindVERBVerbForm=Inf10 comeadvcl
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 remindiobj
14ofofADP_15 whatcase
15whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel12 remindobl
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 forgottennsubj
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 forgottenaux
18forgottenforgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part15 whatacl:relcl
19,,PUNCT_24 camepunct
20andandCCONJ_24 camecc
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 memorynmod:poss
22lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 memoryamod
23memorymemoryNOUNNumber=Sing24 camensubj
24camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 understoodparataxis
25backbackADV_24 cameadvmod
26,,PUNCT_29 knewpunct
27andandCCONJ_29 knewcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 knewnsubj
29knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 cameconj
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 wifenmod:poss
31wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing29 knewobj
32,,PUNCT_34 kissedpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 kissedcc
34kissedkissVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 understoodparataxis
35hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 kissedobj
36..PUNCT_6 understoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1understandpastthe king's sonthenvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2comepast · perfectpigeons = pigeonvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3remind speech: otherto-infinitivepigeons = pigeon not said heresonvn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of what=Topic
4forgetpast · perfectsontree rules
5loseparticiplevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6come backpastson's lost memoryvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7knowpastmemoryson's wifevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
8kisspastmagpievn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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