The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 101

But from that time no work has been done upon it, save that every evening I have pecked at it, till now there is not so much as the size of a nut remaining thereof.

Who acts: I, much, nut · What happens: do, peck, be, remain

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, much, nut), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 done	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 done	aux:pass
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pecked	punct
13	save	save	ADP	_	16 evening	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 evening	det
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pecked	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pecked	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pecked	aux
19	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 done	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pecked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
23	till	till	ADP	_	24 now	case
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 is	obl
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pecked	parataxis
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 much	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 is	nsubj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 size	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 size	det
32	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 much	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 nut	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 nut	det
35	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 size	nmod
36	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 nut	acl
37	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	36 remaining	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect · passive			time	upon work	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
2	peck	present · perfect	I		evening	at work	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
3	be	present	much as the size of a nut	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain	gerund	a nut not said here			thereof property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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