The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 27
But though you live in a palace without windows, the Sun enters everywhere, and he knows you.’
Who acts: you, Sun, father · What happens: live, enter, know · To what, where: palace, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Sun, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 live | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 windows | case |
| 9 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 enters | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 enters | nsubj |
| 13 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 14 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 enters | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knows | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 knows | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | you | a palace | without windows | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | enter | present | the Sun | everywhere property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | father | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=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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