The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 75
‘I have lost my circlet at the castle; the door-post was tarred, and it stuck fast.’
Who acts: I, circlet · What happens: lose, tar, stick · To what, where: circlet, castle, door post
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, circlet), 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 circlet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tarred | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 post | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 post | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 door | punct |
| 14 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tarred | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tarred | aux:pass |
| 16 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lost | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stuck | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stuck | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stuck | nsubj |
| 20 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tarred | parataxis |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 stuck | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | I | my circlet | the castle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circlet=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | tar | past · passive | the door post | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | stick | past | circlet | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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