The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 114
For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory, and forgets his father’s and his mother’s admonitions, and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures, as you shall hear, but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves.
Who acts: Walter, you, I, mother · What happens: have, forget, get, meet, hear, tell · To what, where: good heart, father, trouble, you, wolves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, you, I, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 rest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 memory | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 memory | det |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 memory | amod |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgets | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgets | cc |
| 15 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgets | obj |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 admonitions | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 admonitions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 23 | admonitions | admonition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forgets | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gets | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gets | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 often | advmod |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 gets | advmod |
| 28 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 trouble | case |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gets | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 meets | cc |
| 32 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 gets | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 adventures | case |
| 34 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 meets | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hear | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 hear | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 hear | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 hear | aux |
| 39 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 gets | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 tell | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 tell | cc |
| 42 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 47 tell | advmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 all | case |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 first | obl |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 tell | nsubj |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 tell | aux |
| 47 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 has | conj |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 tell | iobj |
| 49 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 brave | advmod |
| 50 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tell | advcl |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 brave | nsubj |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 brave | cop |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 hunted | cc |
| 54 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 56 hunted | advmod |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 hunted | nsubj |
| 56 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 brave | conj |
| 57 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 hunted | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Walter | a good heart but a bad memory | for the rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | forget | present | Walter not said here | Walter's father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Walter not said here | trouble | often property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | |||
| 4 | meet | present | Walter not said here | with adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | hear | shall | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | must | I | you | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is | past | Walter | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hunt | past | Walter | wolves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 9 | admonish | Walter's mother | nom admonition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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