The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 15
You both remember the fountain I call my favourite?
Who acts: You, I · What happens: remember, call · To what, where: fountain, favourite · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 remember | advmod |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fountain | acl:relcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 favourite | nmod:poss |
| 9 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 call | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | You | the fountain | both property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | present | I | my favourite | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favourite=Recipient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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