The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 70
‘A little while ago you used to be chattering all the day long, and now I have almost forgotten the sound of your voice.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: use, chatter, forget · To what, where: sound
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 (you, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 while | amod |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 used | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 chattering | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chattering | aux |
| 10 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 used | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chattering | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 chattering | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forgotten | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forgotten | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 forgotten | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 forgotten | advmod |
| 21 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 used | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forgotten | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 voice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sound | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | you | ago property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chatter | to-infinitive · progressive | you not said here | day | long property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | forget | present · perfect | I | the sound of your voice | now | almost 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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