The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 80
They whispered together that they had never beheld anything like it.
Who acts: nurse · What happens: whisper, not behold · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (nurse), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 whispered | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beheld | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 beheld | advmod |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 whispered | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 beheld | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 anything | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | nurse | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not behold | past · perfect | nurse | anything | like magnificence | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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 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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