The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 22
Besides the house and tree, I have an old coverlet, which I leave to my eldest son.
Who acts: I, old coverlet · What happens: have, leave · To what, where: old coverlet
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 (I, old coverlet), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tree | cc |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coverlet | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coverlet | amod |
| 11 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coverlet | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a old coverlet | besides the house and tree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | present | a old coverlet | to my eldest son | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_Location |
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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