The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 60

‘I have paid dear for you for the last three nights,’ he said, ‘if I have to part with you now;’ but in the twinkling of an eye she had disappeared.

Who acts: I, Irishman, Princess · What happens: pay, say, have, disappear · To what, where: part, twinkling · 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, Irishman, Princess), 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 paid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paid	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 nights	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nights	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nights	amod
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nights	nummod
12	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 part	mark
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 part	nmod
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 have	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 disappeared	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 twinkling	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 twinkling	det
32	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 disappeared	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 eye	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 eye	det
35	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 twinkling	nmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 disappeared	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 disappeared	aux
38	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · perfect	I			night	for you; dear property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Irishman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I	part with you		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	disappear	past · perfect	Princess		the twinkling of a eye			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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