The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 1
“You have been away a long while,” said the herdsman.
Who acts: You, long while · What happens: be, say · To what, where: herdsman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, long while), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 away | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 while | amod |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 while | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 while | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 herdsman | det |
| 13 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | You | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a long while | the herdsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herdsman=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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