The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 28

‘Well, now, many is the time that my mother has said, when I played her a trick, that my end would be that I should hang on the bridge of Dublin.’

Who acts: I, end · What happens: be, say, play · To what, where: many time, that, mother, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, end), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 many	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 time	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl:unmarked
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	nsubj:pass
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 played	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 played	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 played	nsubj
18	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 played	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trick	det
21	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 played	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hang	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 hang	mark
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 end	nmod:poss
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hang	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hang	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 hang	cop
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 hang	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hang	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hang	aux
31	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 played	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 bridge	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bridge	det
34	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hang	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Dublin	case
36	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bridge	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the many time			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		that			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	play	past	I	mother		a trick obl:unmarked	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is	should	my end		the bridge of Dublin	hang property	tree rules

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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