The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 64

‘Then how is it that I have never seen you before?’

What happens: be, not see · To what, where: surprise

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	10 seen	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 it	advmod
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 it	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 it	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj:pass
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 seen	obj
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		surprise			then		tree rules
2	not see	present · perfect · passive		surprise				before property	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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