The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 86

“My misery has brought me here,” replied the old man; “I have no child, and all our lives my wife and I have longed for one.

Who acts: old man · What happens: bring, reply, long · To what, where: misery, lives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 brought	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 misery	nmod:poss
3	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	parataxis
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 brought	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 longed	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 longed	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 longed	aux
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 longed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 longed	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lives	det:predet
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 longed	nsubj:pass
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lives	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 longed	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 longed	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 longed	aux
30	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 longed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		My misery	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination
2	reply speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	long in a quote	present · perfect · passive		our lives my wife		for one	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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