The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 3

Never was there so hardworking a girl; and how we shall do without her we cannot tell!

Who acts: we · What happens: not be, hardwork, do, not tell · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 there	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hardworking	advmod
5	hardworking	hardwork	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 there	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hardworking	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 do	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 do	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 there	parataxis
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 tell	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tell	nmod:poss
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 tell	advmod
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 do	advcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past			there property	tree rules
2	hardwork	gerund		a girl		tree rules
3	do	shall	we			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	can	we			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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