The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 71

‘Well, my dear cousin,’ said she, ‘and how have you fared since last Christmas Eve, when we had a conversation together?’

Who acts: dear cousin, you, we · What happens: say, fare, have · To what, where: conversation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear cousin, you, we), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cousin	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cousin	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cousin	amod
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cousin	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cousin	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 fared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fared	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fared	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fared	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 fared	nsubj
17	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
18	since	since	ADP	_	20 Christmas	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Christmas	amod
20	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fared	obl
21	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Christmas	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 had	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fared	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 conversation	det
27	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	together	together	ADV	_	25 had	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my dear cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fare	present · perfect	you		since last Christmas		tree rules
3	have	past	we	a conversation		together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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