The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34

And all the time he was thinking to himself that never, during the hundreds of years he had lived, had he seen so charming a maiden.

Who acts: gnome · What happens: think, live, not see · To what, where: gnome, years, charming maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2757): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 thinking	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 thinking	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 seen	mark
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 seen	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hundreds	punct
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 hundreds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hundreds	det
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seen	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lived	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lived	aux
20	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 years	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hundreds	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thinking	ccomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 charming	advmod
26	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 maiden	amod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 maiden	det
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	gnome		gnome	time	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	past · perfect	gnome	years not said here			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme year=Location
3	not see	past · perfect	gnome	a charming maiden		during the hundreds of years	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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