The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 189
But this house, and you, such as you are, we have never seen or heard of.’
What happens: not see, hear · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 are | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 are | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 are | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 are | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 house | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 seen | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heard | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect · passive | this house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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