The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 2

“I, your slave, once had riches and state and power; there are many such stones in my country.

Who acts: I, many such stones · What happens: have, be · To what, where: riches, country

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, many such stones), 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	_	8 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slave	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 slave	nmod:poss
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 I	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slave	punct
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 state	cc
11	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 riches	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 power	cc
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 riches	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 are	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 country	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 country	nmod:poss
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 are	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	I	riches and state and power				once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient
2	does in a quote	present	many such stones			my country; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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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