The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 30
I have never milked a cow before, but I have good strong fingers.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not milk, have · To what, where: cow, good strong fingers
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 milked | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 milked | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 milked | advmod |
| 4 | milked | milk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 milked | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 milked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 milked | conj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingers | amod |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingers | amod |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 milked | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 milked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not milk | present · perfect | I | a cow | before property | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | good strong fingers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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