The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 131
‘But I know the wood, where the sun shines, and the birds sing.’
Who acts: I, sun, birds · What happens: know, shine, sing · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sun, birds), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shines | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 shines | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wood | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sing | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sing | nsubj |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | the wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/131/