The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 106
All that is left of that oak is a withered stump, but never once have I heard of the man you name.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: leave, wither, be, have, hear, name · To what, where: All, withered stump, man
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, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oak | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 oak | det |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stump | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stump | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stump | det |
| 10 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stump | amod |
| 11 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 once | advmod |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 name | nsubj |
| 23 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | All | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a withered stump | of that oak | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | once property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hear | participle | I | of the man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | name | present | you | the man not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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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