The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 101

‘I have lived here,’ said he, ‘for three hundred years, and all that time I have not seen a single human being but yourself.’

Who acts: I, loss · What happens: live, say, not see · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, loss), 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 lived	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	aux
4	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 years	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 years	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 time	det:predet
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obl:unmarked
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 human	det
26	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 human	amod
27	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seen	conj
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 but	cop
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 yourself	cc
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 human	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	I	here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	loss		year	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	present · perfect	I		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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