The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 53

It could not think of happiness, it was sad at leaving its home, the spot where it had sprung up; it knew, too, that it would never see again its dear old companions, or the little shrubs and flowers, perhaps not even the birds.

Who acts: axe · What happens: not think, be, leave, spring up, know, not see · To what, where: home, axe, dear old companions

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 (axe), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 happiness	case
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sad	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	parataxis
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 leaving	mark
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sad	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 home	nmod:poss
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaving	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spot	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spot	det
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 home	appos
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 sprung	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sprung	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sprung	aux
21	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spot	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 sprung	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 too	punct
27	too	too	ADV	_	25 knew	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 companions	nmod:poss
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 companions	amod
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 companions	amod
38	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 see	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shrubs	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 shrubs	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shrubs	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 shrubs	amod
43	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 see	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 flowers	cc
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 shrubs	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 birds	punct
47	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	51 birds	advmod
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 birds	advmod
49	even	even	ADV	_	51 birds	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 birds	det
51	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 shrubs	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	could	axe			of happiness	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	axe			sad property	tree rules
3	leave	gerund	axe not said here	axe's home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
4	spring up	past · perfect · passive		axe			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	know	past	axe				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not see	would	axe	axe's dear old companions	again	the little shrubs and flowers and the birds obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus

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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