The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 30

My nurse and I were almost in despair, as my fifteenth birthday was drawing near, and I had never so much as spoken to a man.

Who acts: I, nurse · What happens: be, draw, have, speak · To what, where: despair, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nurse), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nurse	nmod:poss
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drawing	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 despair	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 despair	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 despair	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 despair	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nurse	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drawing	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 drawing	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 birthday	nmod:poss
12	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birthday	amod
13	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drawing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drawing	aux
15	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	near	near	ADV	_	15 drawing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drawing	conj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 much	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 spoken	mark
25	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 much	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 man	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 drawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		despair	almost property	tree rules
2	draw	past · progressive	My nurse and despair			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	I	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	speak speech: other	participle				to a man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent

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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