The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 102
Yet all that time I have never once heard of the man you name.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: hear, name · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 once | advmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 name | nsubj |
| 14 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | time | of the man; once property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | name | present | you | the man not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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