The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 105
Since that time no one has ever seen Hans, the Mermaid’s son.
Who acts: one · What happens: see · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mermaid | det |
| 12 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Mermaid | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | no one | Hans | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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