The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 28
It is a long time since I set out, but no one can tell me where to find it.’
Who acts: Blackbird, I, one · What happens: be, set out, tell, find · To what, where: long time, me, Blackbird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blackbird, I, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 set | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 find | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tell | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Blackbird | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | can | no one | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | no one not said here | Blackbird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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