The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 62

Nobody had ever been into it, but it was reported to be full of the most wonderful things, and my mother remembered to have heard that the fairies had in their garden such fruits as were to be seen and tasted nowhere else.

Who acts: Nobody, mother, fairies · What happens: have, be, report, remember, hear, see · To what, where: castle, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (Nobody, mother, fairies), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 it	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 it	cop
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reported	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 reported	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reported	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reported	aux:pass
11	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 full	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reported	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 things	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 things	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 wonderful	advmod
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remembered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 remembered	cc
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remembered	nsubj
24	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 heard	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 heard	aux
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 remembered	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fairies	det
30	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 garden	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 garden	nmod:poss
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fruits	amod
36	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 garden	conj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 seen	mark
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 seen	aux
39	to	to	PART	_	41 seen	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 seen	aux:pass
41	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 had	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 tasted	cc
43	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 seen	conj
44	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 tasted	advmod
45	else	else	ADV	_	44 nowhere	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nobody					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle			castle	ever		tree rules
3	report	past · passive		castle				vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive					of the wonderful things; full property	tree rules
5	remember	past	my mother					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	hear	to-infinitive · perfect						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	past	the fairies		tales's garden and such fruits			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	see	past · passive	the fairies not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
9	taste	participle	the fairies not said here				nowhere property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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