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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 45

All the eleven assured him that they had never said anything of the kind, and they did not believe that such a dove existed in the whole world.

Who acts: eleven, brothers · What happens: assure, not say, not believe, exist · To what, where: king, anything, dove, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, brothers), 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

det:predetdetnsubjiobjmarknsubjauxadvmodccompobjmarkdetaclpunctccnsubjauxadvmodparataxismarkdet:predetdetccompaclcasedetamodoblpunctrootAllDETtheDETelevenNUMassuredVERBhimPRONthatSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXneverADVsaidVERBanythingPRONofSCONJtheDETkindADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONdidAUXnotPARTbelieveVERBthatSCONJsuchDETaDETdoveNOUNexistedVERBinADPtheDETwholeADJworldNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AllallDETPronType=Tot3 elevendet:predet
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 elevendet
3elevenelevenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 assurednsubj
4assuredassureVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 assurediobj
6thatthatSCONJ_10 saidmark
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 saidnsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidaux
9neverneverADVPronType=Neg10 saidadvmod
10saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 assuredccomp
11anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind10 saidobj
12ofofSCONJ_14 kindmark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kinddet
14kindkindADJDegree=Pos11 anythingacl
15,,PUNCT_20 believepunct
16andandCCONJ_20 believecc
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs20 believensubj
18diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 believeaux
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 believeadvmod
20believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 assuredparataxis
21thatthatSCONJ_24 dovemark
22suchsuchDETPronType=Ind24 dovedet:predet
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 dovedet
24dovedoveNOUNNumber=Sing20 believeccomp
25existedexistVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 doveacl
26ininADP_29 worldcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 worlddet
28wholewholeADJDegree=Pos29 worldamod
29worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing25 existedobl
30..PUNCT_4 assuredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1assurepastall elevenkingvn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2not say speech: assertpast · perfectbrothers = brotheranythingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3not believepast · do-supportbrothers = brothervn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4existparticiplesuch dove not said herethe whole worldvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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