The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 121
Now I have age and wisdom; I know everyone in the house, and I can remember a time when I was not lying here in a cold kennel.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, know, remember, not lie · To what, where: age, everyone, house, cold kennel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wisdom | cc |
| 6 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 age | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 everyone | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remember | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | aux |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remember | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 lying | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 lying | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lying | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 lying | advmod |
| 25 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 remember | advcl |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lying | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 kennel | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 kennel | det |
| 29 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kennel | amod |
| 30 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lying | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | age and wisdom | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | everyone | the house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everyone=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | remember | can | I | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not lie | past · progressive | I | a cold kennel; here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kennel=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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