The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 2

‘“Since I came into the world I have been many times scoured, and have cooked much.

Who acts: different · What happens: come, be, scour, cook · To what, where: world, many times

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (different), 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	_	5 came	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	Since	since	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 scoured	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scoured	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 times	cop
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scoured	obl:unmarked
14	scoured	scour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cooked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cooked	cc
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cooked	aux
18	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 scoured	conj
19	much	much	ADV	_	18 cooked	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	different		the world	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
2	is a in a quote	participle		many times		tree rules
3	scour in a quote	present · perfect	different			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	cook in a quote	present · perfect	different not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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