The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 43

Never in all Locquignol had such a thing been heard of as the spinning of nettles.

Who acts: Locquignol · What happens: not have, hear, spin · To what, where: thing, nettles

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Locquignol), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 had	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Locquignol	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Locquignol	det
4	Locquignol	Locquignol	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thing	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj:pass
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 spinning	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 spinning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spinning	det
14	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 nettles	case
16	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spinning	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past	all Locquignol			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	participle · passive		such thing	of the spinning of nettles	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	spin			nettles		nom spinning «act transitive»: of=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 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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