The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 100

‘When I first came here I was a young bird, and there was a smith’s anvil in this place.

Who acts: I, young bird · What happens: come, be · To what, where: young bird, anvil, place

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young bird), 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	_	11 bird	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bird	advcl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bird	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bird	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anvil	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 anvil	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 smith	det
17	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anvil	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 smith	case
19	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anvil	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 anvil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		here	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	I	a young bird			tree rules
3	is a	past	a young bird	a smith's anvil	this place		tree rules

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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