The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 106

‘I have seen them pass, but they have never returned, and by this I know that the spell has fallen upon them.’

Who acts: I, treasures, spell · What happens: see, pass, not return, know, fall · To what, where: treasures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, treasures, spell), 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	_	4 seen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	obj
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 returned	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 returned	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 returned	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 returned	advmod
12	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seen	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 this	case
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 know	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 fallen	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spell	det
21	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fallen	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 know	ccomp
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fallen	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	treasures = treasure		tree rules
2	pass	infinitive	treasures = treasure not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not return	present · perfect	treasures = treasure			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	I		by this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	present · perfect	the spell		upon treasures = treasure	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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