The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 5
How should they have learned to cultivate your garden?”
Who acts: fathers · What happens: learn, cultivate · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fathers), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 learned | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cultivate | mark |
| 7 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learned | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cultivate | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | should · perfect | fathers = father | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cultivate | to-infinitive | fathers = father not said here | your garden | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Product |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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