The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 32

“Yes, indeed, I’ve lived long and been much about in the world, but I have never seen or heard anything of what you ask.

Who acts: father, you · What happens: have, live, not see, hear, ask · To what, where: anything

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ’ve	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 ’ve	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 ’ve	nsubj
7	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	advcl
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 been	cc
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lived	conj
12	much	much	ADV	_	11 been	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 world	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 been	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 seen	advmod
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lived	advcl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 heard	cc
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 seen	conj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 heard	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 anything	nmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 ask	nsubj
29	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	father		indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	live in a quote	past			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not see in a quote	present · perfect	father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hear in a quote	participle	father not said here	anything		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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