The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 41

‘No one has ever called me mother this hundred years.’

What happens: call · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. 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	_	6 called	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · perfect · passive		no one			ever; year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme i=Result

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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