The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 100
I am a nun from the Spinning Convent,(10) and my mother when she died left me this apple.
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: be, die, leave · To what, where: nun, Spinning Convent, apple, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 nun | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nun | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nun | det |
| 4 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Convent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Convent | det |
| 7 | Spinning | Spinning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Convent | compound |
| 8 | Convent | Convent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nun | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 10 | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 10 | punct |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Convent | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 10 | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mother | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Convent | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 died | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 died | nsubj |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | advcl |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nun | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 left | iobj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 apple | det |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a nun | the Spinning Convent and my mother | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | mother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | this apple | me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme apple=Attribute |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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