The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 63
The little Goblin had never even dreamt of such a splendid sight, much less seen it.
What happens: not dreamt, see · To what, where: little Goblin, sight
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goblin | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Goblin | amod |
| 3 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreamt | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 dreamt | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 dreamt | advmod |
| 7 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 sight | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sight | amod |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 less | advmod |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dreamt | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dreamt | past · perfect · passive | the little Goblin | of such splendid sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | sight | less property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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