The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 8

It is ages since you went away, and all the time, you have been carrying on with all sorts of flowers.

Who acts: constancy, you · What happens: be, go away, carry on, sort · To what, where: ages, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (constancy, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ages	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ages	cop
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ages	acl:relcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carrying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carrying	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carrying	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 carrying	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 carrying	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 carrying	aux
17	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 carrying	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 sorts	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sorts	det
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carrying	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 flowers	case
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sorts	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ages	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	constancy	ages			tree rules
2	go away	past	you	ages not said here		away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location age=Theme
3	carry on	present · perfect · progressive	you		time	with all sorts of flowers	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	sort			flowers			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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