The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 47

I was telling you that I was your father’s friend; he often came to see me in the old times, and you must know that I was very pretty in those days; at least, he used to say so.

Who acts: I, friend, you · What happens: tell, be, come, see, know, use · To what, where: you, your, me, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, friend, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 telling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 friend	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 your	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 your	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friend	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 times	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 times	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 pretty	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 pretty	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pretty	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 pretty	advmod
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 know	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 days	case
34	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 days	det
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pretty	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 used	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 least	case
38	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 used	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 least	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 used	nsubj
41	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 say	mark
43	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 used	xcomp
44	so	so	ADV	_	43 say	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	past	I	your					tree rules
3	come	past	friend					often property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	friend not said here	me			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	know	must	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	I				day	pretty property	tree rules
7	use	past	friend			least			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	friend not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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