The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 33

I have been here for sixteen years now, and no one who ever came to the castle has asked me who I was, except yourself.

Who acts: I, one · What happens: be, come, ask · To what, where: castle, me · 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, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 here	obl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 years	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	aux
20	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 here	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 yourself	nsubj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 yourself	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 yourself	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 yourself	punct
26	except	except	ADP	_	27 yourself	case
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 asked	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I			year	here property	tree rules
2	come	past	no one		the castle	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	present · perfect	no one	me				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is	past					except yourself	tree rules

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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