The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 55

I’ve never heard of such a thing!’

Who acts: I · What happens: not hear

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
2	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thing	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · perfect	I					of such thing	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=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 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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