The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 81

Fifty years have passed since I was young, and who knows where the bones of my horse may be rotting, or whether a scrap of his reins still lie in his stall?

Who acts: I, bones, scrap · What happens: pass, be, know, rot, lie · To what, where: Fifty years, stall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bones, scrap), 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	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	aux
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 young	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 young	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 passed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knows	cc
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 rotting	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bones	det
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rotting	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horse	nmod:poss
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bones	nmod
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 rotting	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 rotting	aux
21	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 knows	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 lie	cc
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	31 lie	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 scrap	det
26	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 reins	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 reins	nmod:poss
29	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 scrap	nmod
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 lie	advmod
31	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 stall	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 stall	nmod:poss
34	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lie	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect · passive		Fifty years				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	is	past	I				young property	tree rules
3	know	present						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	rot	may · progressive	the bones of my horse					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	lie	present	a scrap of scrap's reins		scrap's stall	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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