The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 72
However, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, not deceive · To what, where: Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deceived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deceived | cc |
| 15 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 19 deceived | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 deceived | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 deceived | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 deceived | aux:pass |
| 19 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | Emperor | time | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||
| 2 | not deceive | can · passive | I not said here | therefore property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
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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