The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 8
‘These three trees, which I cannot see without sorrow, were planted by me on this spot when I was a youth of twenty.
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not see, plant, be · To what, where: three trees, spot, youth
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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 | _ | 15 planted | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 trees | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 trees | nummod |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 see | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trees | acl:relcl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 sorrow | case |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 planted | aux:pass |
| 15 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 planted | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 planted | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 youth | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 youth | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 youth | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 youth | det |
| 25 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 planted | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 twenty | case |
| 27 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 youth | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | I | this three trees | without sorrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | plant | past · passive | me | this three trees | this spot | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on spot=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | I | a youth | of twenty | 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 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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