Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 103

Was ever the like of it known before?"

What happens: know

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux:pass
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 known	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 known	det
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 known	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 like	fixed
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 known	nsubj:pass
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 known	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive					ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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