Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12

You have never had a stone thrown at you.

Who acts: You · What happens: not have, throw · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stone	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thrown	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · perfect	You	a stone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	throw	participle		a stone not said here				at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at you=Destination

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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