The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 62
If one didn’t know it, one would never think that it was you we got from the red cow; will you come home with me now?’
Who acts: one, peasant, you · What happens: not know, not think, be, get, come · To what, where: peasant, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, peasant, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 think | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 cow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cow | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cow | amod |
| 21 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 think | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | one | peasant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | would | one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | peasant | you | we nmod | tree rules | |||
| 4 | get | past | you | from the red cow | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from cow=Destination | ||||
| 5 | come | future | you | now | with me; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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