The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 110

‘“We used to be on the green fir-boughs.

Who acts: We · What happens: use, be · To what, where: green fir boughs

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	4 used	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	12 boughs	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 boughs	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 boughs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boughs	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boughs	amod
10	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boughs	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fir	punct
12	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use in a quote	past	We						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here			the green fir boughs			tree rules

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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