The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 79

I must have been flowing here a hundred years and more and no one has ever yet come by.”

Who acts: I, hundred years · What happens: flow, come by

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hundred years), 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	5 flowing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 flowing	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 flowing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 flowing	aux
5	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flowing	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 years	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 yet	advmod
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 flowing	parataxis
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 come	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flowing	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 flowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	must · perfect · progressive	I			here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come by	present · perfect	hundred years				yet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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