The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 100
‘By and bye I was born, and was brought up by my grandfather in one of his great houses.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: bear, bring up · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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 | _ | 7 born | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 born | mark |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 born | cc |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 7 born | discourse |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 born | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 brought | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 grandfather | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brought | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 houses | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 houses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 houses | amod |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | I | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bring up | past · passive | my grandfather | in one of grandfather's great houses | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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