The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 28

And the dog said, ‘Many a night have I watched and guarded my master’s house, and now that I am old and deaf, he wants to hang me.’

Who acts: dog, I · What happens: say, have, watch, guard, be, want · To what, where: Many, house, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Many	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Many	punct
7	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl:unmarked
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Many	parataxis
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 watched	nsubj
12	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 guarded	cc
14	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 watched	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 master	nmod:poss
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 master	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guarded	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 old	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 old	cc
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 old	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 old	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 old	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 old	cop
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 watched	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deaf	cc
27	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 old	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wants	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wants	nsubj
30	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hang	mark
32	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wants	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hang	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 wants	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dog	Many			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent many=Topic
2	have	present			night		tree rules
3	watch	past	I				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	guard	past	I not said here	my master's house			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary
5	is	present	I		now	old property	tree rules
6	be		I not said here				tree rules
7	want	present	dog				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	hang not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog not said here	me			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «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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