The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 151

‘I heard that on my happiest evening, but I did not realise then how happy I was.’

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, not realise, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	3 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 evening	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 evening	nmod:poss
7	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 evening	amod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 realise	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 realise	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 realise	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 realise	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 realise	advmod
14	realise	realise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	parataxis
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 happy	advmod
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 happy	advmod
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 realise	ccomp
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 happy	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happy	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	that	evening		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	not realise	past · do-support	I				tree rules
3	is	past	I		then	happy 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 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.

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