The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 71

I am your little sparrow, whose life you saved, and whom you took such care of.’

Who acts: I, life, you · What happens: be, save, take · To what, where: little sparrow, such care

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, life, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sparrow	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sparrow	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sparrow	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sparrow	amod
5	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saved	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saved	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saved	nsubj
10	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sparrow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 whom	cc
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 saved	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 care	amod
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 care	case
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sparrow	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sparrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	your little sparrow	tree rules
2	save	past	life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	you	such care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=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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