The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66
Is it possible you don’t know that when we leave home we always hang up our hearts on trees, to prevent their being troublesome?
Who acts: course, you, we · What happens: be, not know, leave, hang up, prevent · To what, where: home, hearts, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, you, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possible | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 possible | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 hang | mark |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hang | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hang | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 hang | advmod |
| 15 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 hang | compound:prt |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hang | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hang | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prevent | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prevent | mark |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 troublesome | nmod:poss |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 troublesome | cop |
| 26 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prevent | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | course | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | we | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang up | present | we | our hearts | trees | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||
| 5 | prevent | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 6 | is | gerund | troublesome property | 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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