The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 84
It is a thousand years since I first began to seek you.”
Who acts: last, I · What happens: be, begin, seek · To what, where: thousand years, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 years | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 years | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 years | det |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 began | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 began | advmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 years | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seek | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | last | a thousand years | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | I | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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