Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 27

For the last three days I have had nothing.

Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 had	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	nothing			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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