The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 43
‘I know not how long it is since I myself came, but during all that time I have never seen a Christian man.
Who acts: I, dare · What happens: not know, be, not see · To what, where: Christian man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dare), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 know | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | cop |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 I | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 seen | cc |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | dare | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | present · perfect | I | a Christian man | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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