The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 107
Perhaps you have forgotten, too, how we found a live hare in the river?’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: forget, find · To what, where: live hare, river
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 12 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hare | amod |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | you | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | we | a live hare | the river | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Topic |
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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