The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 99
The figs of course are yours, but the branches they grow on are mine, and I forbid you to touch them.’
Who acts: figs, branches, I · What happens: be, grow, forbid, touch · To what, where: yours, you, figs
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, branches, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 figs | det |
| 2 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 figs | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 yours | cop |
| 6 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grow | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 grow | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branches | det |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 yours | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 mine | case |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mine | cop |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grow | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forbid | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forbid | nsubj |
| 19 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 forbid | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 touch | mark |
| 22 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 forbid | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 touch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 yours | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the figs of course | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the branches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | on mine | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forbid | present | I | you | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | touch | to-infinitive | I not said here | figs = fig | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=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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