The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 32

Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share in.

Who acts: father, Effie · What happens: not hear, say, have · To what, where: Effie, share · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Effie), 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	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 had	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 share	det
15	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 share	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect · passive		Effie		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	Effie's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Effie	any share	about anything	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=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 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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