The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 59
I have been there constantly for several months, but last night a strange thing happened.
Who acts: I, strange thing · What happens: be, happen
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strange thing), 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 | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 months | amod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 there | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | month | constantly, there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | a strange thing | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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