The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 100

‘Have I not been your prisoner these two years, and who have I seen except the gaolers sent by you?’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not be, see, send · To what, where: prisoner, gaolers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 prisoner	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 prisoner	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 prisoner	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prisoner	nmod:poss
7	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	ccomp
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 years	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Have	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seen	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Have	parataxis
17	except	except	ADP	_	19 gaolers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gaolers	det
19	gaolers	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seen	obl
20	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 gaolers	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sent	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	participle	I	your prisoner			tree rules
3	see	present · perfect				except the gaolers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	send	participle		the gaolers not said here		by you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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