The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 117

But only once have I heard of the man you name, and that was when I went in search of food as far as Llyn Llyw.

Who acts: I, you, that · What happens: hear, name, be, go, search · To what, where: man, search, food

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, you, that), 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	_	6 heard	cc
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 name	nsubj
11	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 when	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 when	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 when	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 when	cop
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 went	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 search	case
20	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 food	case
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 search	nmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 went	advmod
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 Llyw	case
26	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Llyw	compound
27	Llyw	Llyw	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 far	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I			of the man	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus
2	name	present	you	the man not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	is	past	that			when property	tree rules
4	go	past	I		search of food	far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	search			food			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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