The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 26
I never knew a donkey could kick like that, though I took care she should carry away the marks of my claws.”
Who acts: I, donkey · What happens: not know, kick, take, carry away, mark · To what, where: care, marks, claws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, donkey), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kick | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kick | aux |
| 7 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 kick | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 took | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kick | conj |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | ccomp |
| 18 | away | away | ADP | _ | 17 carry | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 marks | det |
| 20 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carry | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 claws | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 claws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 marks | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kick | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kick | could | a donkey | like that | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | I | care | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carry away | should | donkey | the marks of my claws | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mark | my claws | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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