The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 6
Since we last met my fortune has utterly changed; I am no longer the poor vagabond that I was then.
Who acts: we, fortune, I · What happens: meet, change, be · To what, where: poor vagabond
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fortune, 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 met | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 3 | last | last | ADV | _ | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | aux |
| 8 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 met | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 vagabond | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 vagabond | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 vagabond | cop |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 vagabond | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vagabond | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vagabond | amod |
| 17 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 was | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 was | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 vagabond | acl:relcl |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 was | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | we | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect | my fortune | utterly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | the poor vagabond | long property | tree rules |
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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