The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 68

‘I was, sir,’ says he, ‘a very wild boy in my youth, and came through many distresses; once in particular, as I was on my rambling, I was benighted and could find no lodging.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, say, come, benight, find · To what, where: sir, Thief, many distresses, rambling, I, lodging · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sir	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sir	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
5	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 wild	advmod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 he	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 youth	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 youth	nmod:poss
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boy	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 distresses	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distresses	amod
24	distresses	distress	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 particular	punct
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 particular	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 particular	case
28	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rambling	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 rambling	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 rambling	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 rambling	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 rambling	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 rambling	nmod:poss
35	rambling	rambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 particular	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 benighted	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 benighted	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 benighted	aux:pass
39	benighted	benight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 particular	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 find	cc
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 find	aux
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 benighted	conj
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 lodging	det
44	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 find	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	I	sir		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		Thief		tree rules
3	come	past			many distresses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through distress=Initial_Location
4	is	past	I		my rambling	tree rules
5	benight	past · passive		I		tree rules
6	find	could		no lodging		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic

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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