The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

Have you not just heard me say that death has no power either over myself or any of my kindred till that great tree is rooted up?

Who acts: you, me, death · What happens: have, not hear, say, root up · To what, where: me, power, great tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, death), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 heard	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Have	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 has	mark
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 power	det
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
13	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 myself	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 myself	case
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 has	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 kindred	cc
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 kindred	nsubj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 kindred	mark
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 kindred	nmod:poss
20	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 myself	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 rooted	mark
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 tree	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rooted	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rooted	aux:pass
26	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 kindred	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 rooted	compound:prt
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present				tree rules
2	not hear	past	you	me		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	death	no power	over myself	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
5	root up	present · passive		that great tree		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 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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