The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 168
I chased you from my kingdom, and you have given me life again!
Who acts: I, you · What happens: chase, give · To what, where: you, kingdom, life, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | 2 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 chased | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 given | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 given | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 chased | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 given | iobj |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 given | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | I | you | my kingdom | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme from kingdom=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | you | life | me | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=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 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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