More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 7
Jubal, did you ever hear such a thing in all your life, my brother?"
Who acts: Jubal, you · What happens: do, hear · To what, where: brother, thing, life
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jubal, you), 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 | Jubal | Jubal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jubal | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 hear | advmod |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 thing | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 life | det:predet |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brother | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jubal | my brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | such thing | your life | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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