The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 141
During all the hours I have spent in your house not a creature has touched anything.”
Who acts: I · What happens: spend, not touch · To what, where: house, creature
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hours | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hours | det |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spent | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spent | aux |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | obl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 touched | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 creature | det |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | aux |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spent | advcl |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 touched | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present · perfect | I | your house | hour | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not touch | present · perfect · passive | a creature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer anything=Result |
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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