The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 40

‘A fine day, Prince Milan,’ he said; ‘you’ve kept me waiting a good number of years; it was high time for you to come and pay me a visit.’

Who acts: man, you, number · What happens: say, keep, wait, be, come, pay · To what, where: you, good number, high time, visit, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, number), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Milan	punct
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Milan	compound
7	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 kept	nsubj:pass
15	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kept	aux:pass
16	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 kept	obj
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 kept	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 number	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 number	amod
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 years	case
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 number	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 time	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 time	cop
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pay	cc
34	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pay	iobj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 visit	det
37	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	present · passive		you			tree rules
3	wait	gerund	you not said here	a good number of years			tree rules
4	is a	past	number	high time			tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pay	infinitive	you not said here	a visit	me		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset

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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