The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 254

And I never heard tell of that cure, old as I am."

Who acts: I · What happens: not hear · To what, where: tell

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cure	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cure	det
8	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	parataxis
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 am	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 am	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past	I	tell of that cure					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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