The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 70

He had never had such a waltz before, and he never wished to have such a dance again.

Who acts: attorney · What happens: not have, not wish, have · To what, where: waltz, dance

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attorney), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 waltz	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 waltz	det
7	waltz	waltz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wished	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wished	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 wished	advmod
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 dance	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dance	det
18	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	attorney	such waltz		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waltz=Patient
2	not wish	past	attorney				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	attorney not said here	such dance	again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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