The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 58
Up till now I have been subject to no man, and no man had had my love.
Who acts: I, man, my · What happens: be, have, love · To what, where: subject, love
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, my), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 7 subject | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | ADP | _ | 3 now | case |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 subject | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 subject | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 subject | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 subject | cop |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 subject | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | aux |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 subject | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | I | subject | to no man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | no man | my love | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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