The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 89

For seven hundred years have I watched over it, but now my time has come; it is common property, let him find it who can.

Who acts: I, time, earth, apparition · What happens: have, watch, come, be, let, find · To what, where: earth, common property, apparition

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time, earth, apparition), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obl
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 watched	nsubj
7	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 time	nmod:poss
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 watched	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 property	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 property	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 property	cop
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 property	amod
21	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 can	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present				year	tree rules
2	watch	participle	I		earth		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location
3	come	present · perfect	my time			now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	earth	common property			tree rules
5	let	infinitive		apparition			tree rules
6	find	infinitive	apparition not said here	earth			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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