The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 34

‘I have never even heard of them.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not hear

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · perfect	I					of brothers = brother	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=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 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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