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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 understood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understood | nsubj |
| 6 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 understood | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remind | mark |
| 12 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remind | iobj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 remind | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forgotten | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forgotten | aux |
| 18 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 memory | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 memory | amod |
| 23 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understood | parataxis |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 knew | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knew | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kissed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kissed | cc |
| 34 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understood | parataxis |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 kissed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the king's son | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | pigeons = pigeon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | pigeons = pigeon not said here | son | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | forget | past · perfect | son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | come back | past | son's lost memory | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know | past | memory | son's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | kiss | past | magpie | vn 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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