The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81
I have heard of you so often that I am very glad to meet you.
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, be, meet · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 often | advmod |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 glad | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | of you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | glad, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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