The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 104
‘The figs in truth belong to you, but you cannot pluck them without touching both the trunk and the branches.
Who acts: figs, you · What happens: belong, not pluck, touch · To what, where: you, figs, trunk
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figs, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 figs | det |
| 3 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 belong | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 truth | case |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 figs | nmod |
| 6 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 belong | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pluck | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pluck | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pluck | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 pluck | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 pluck | advmod |
| 14 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 belong | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pluck | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 touching | mark |
| 17 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pluck | advcl |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 trunk | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trunk | det |
| 20 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touching | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 branches | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 branches | det |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trunk | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the figs in truth | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not pluck | can | you | figs = fig | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | you not said here | the trunk and the branches | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-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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