The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 4

‘I am,’ answered he; ‘all these hours have I wandered, and there fell but these two blackbirds, both of one colour.’

Who acts: hours, I · What happens: answer, have, wander, fall · To what, where: king, two blackbirds

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hours, 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 am	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hours	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 hours	det
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wandered	nsubj
15	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 fell	advmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wandered	conj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 blackbirds	cc
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 blackbirds	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 blackbirds	nummod
23	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 both	punct
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 blackbirds	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 colour	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 colour	nummod
28	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 both	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			king		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	have	present	all hours				tree rules
3	wander	past	I				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	I not said here	this two blackbirds		there	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient blackbird=Result

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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