The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 32

For years I have been wandering about the world and gaining my living by my music.’

Who acts: I, my · What happens: wonder, gain, live · To what, where: living

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 years	case
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wandering	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wandering	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wandering	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wandering	aux
6	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandering	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gaining	cc
11	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wandering	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 living	nmod:poss
13	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gaining	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 music	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 music	nmod:poss
16	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gaining	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wandering	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wandering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present · perfect · progressive	I		year	about the world	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus
2	gain	gerund	I not said here	my living		by my music	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
3	live		my				nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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