The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 45
All the time I have been here you have never repeated a dish, and all were excellent.
Who acts: I, all · What happens: be, not repeat · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, all), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 here | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 here | cop |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 repeated | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 repeated | advmod |
| 11 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dish | det |
| 13 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 excellent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 excellent | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 excellent | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 excellent | cop |
| 18 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 repeated | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | all time not said here | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not repeat | present · perfect · passive | all time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | all | excellent property | 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 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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