The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 73

‘No,’ said the brothers; they had never said nor thought such a thing, and they did not believe that there was such a boar in the whole world.

Who acts: brothers, boar · What happens: say, not say, think, not believe, be · To what, where: brothers, thing · 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 (brothers, boar), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 said	advmod
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 thought	cc
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 thing	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 believe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 believe	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 believe	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 believe	advmod
23	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	ccomp
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 boar	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boar	det
29	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 world	amod
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boar	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the brothers		tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past · perfect	brothers = brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	brothers = brother not said here	such thing		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
4	not believe	past · do-support	brothers = brother			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	such boar in the whole world		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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