The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 14

Never have you given me one moment’s pain.

Who acts: you, one moment · What happens: not give, pain · To what, where: pain, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one moment), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 given	advmod
2	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 given	iobj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 moment	nummod
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pain	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 moment	case
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	infinitive · perfect	you	one moment's pain	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pain=Theme
2	pain		one moment						nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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