The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 97

I had an unlucky accident, and it is quite impossible to wear,” he said, when he found her.

Who acts: I, rock · What happens: have, be, wear, say, find · To what, where: unlucky accident, great many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rock), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 accident	det
4	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accident	amod
5	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 impossible	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 impossible	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 impossible	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 impossible	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 impossible	advmod
11	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wear	mark
13	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 impossible	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 impossible	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 found	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	a unlucky accident		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient
2	is	present			impossible property	tree rules
3	wear	to-infinitive				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	rock			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find in a quote	past	rock	great many = many		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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