The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 39
‘Do you remember when you were digging in the field near the river, three months ago, you found a robin redbreast caught in a net?
Who acts: you · What happens: remember, dig, find, catch · To what, where: field, robin redbreast, net
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 digging | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 digging | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 digging | aux |
| 8 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remember | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 digging | obl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 digging | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ago | punct |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 months | nummod |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 remember | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 redbreast | det |
| 23 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 redbreast | compound |
| 24 | redbreast | redbreast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 redbreast | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 net | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 net | det |
| 28 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · do-support | you | ago property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dig | past · progressive | you | the field | near the river | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | you | a robin redbreast | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent redbreast=Topic | ||||
| 4 | catch | participle | a robin redbreast not said here | a net | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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