The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 50

‘Why, it must be a century since I have had any!

Who acts: cap, I · What happens: be, have · To what, where: century, any

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cap, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 century	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 century	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 century	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 century	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 century	det
8	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 had	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	cap	a century					tree rules
2	have	present · perfect	I	any					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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