The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 92

I have been told all that a hundred times over; and it runs off me like water off a duck’s back.

Who acts: youth · What happens: tell, run off · To what, where: I, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 told	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hundred	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl:unmarked
10	over	over	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 runs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 runs	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 runs	nsubj
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 runs	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 water	case
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 runs	obl
19	off	off	ADP	_	23 back	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 duck	det
21	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 duck	case
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 runs	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I			time	over property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	run off	present	youth	me				like water; off a duck's back	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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