The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 40
Now I am tall and grown-up like those which were taken away last year.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, grow up, take away
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tall | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tall | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tall | cop |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grown | cc |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 tall | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 grown | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 taken | advmod |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | tall property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow up | participle | I not said here | like those | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take away | past · passive | year | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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