The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 21

“No!” they answered, “no one has ever known or heard or seen aught about it; it is an empty fancy.”

Who acts: men, matter · What happens: answer, know, hear, see, be · To what, where: one, aught, empty fancy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, matter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 known	advmod
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 answered	parataxis
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 known	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 seen	cc
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 heard	conj
18	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	17 seen	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 aught	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fancy	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fancy	cop
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fancy	det
25	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fancy	amod
26	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 fancy	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	men = man				tree rules
2	know in a quote	present · perfect · passive		no one	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	hear in a quote	participle					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	see in a quote	participle		aught		about matter	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	present	matter	a empty fancy			tree rules

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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