The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 24
She was the only person who cared about me, and we lived together in this city on a small pension allowed me by the king.
Who acts: fairy, only person, we · What happens: be, care, live together, allow · To what, where: only person, city, small pension, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, only person, we), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 person | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cared | nsubj |
| 7 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | acl:relcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 lived | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 pension | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pension | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pension | amod |
| 21 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 city | nmod |
| 22 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pension | acl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 allowed | iobj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 allowed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fairy | the only person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | past | the only person | about me | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | live together | past | we | the only person not said here | this city on a small pension | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme person=Location | ||
| 4 | allow | participle | a small pension not said here | me | by the king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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