The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 22

‘In my youth, when I was an old man, we had a quantity of beehives.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: old man, quantity, youth

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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	_	14 had	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 youth	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 youth	nmod:poss
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 man	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 youth	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 youth	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quantity	det
16	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 beehives	case
18	beehives	beehive	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 quantity	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a old man					tree rules
2	have	past	we	a quantity of beehives		my youth and a old man			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient

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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