The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 19

Don’t you know that there was never a bear yet who danced of his own free will?’

Who acts: you · What happens: not do, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	advcl
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 bear	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 danced	advmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 danced	nsubj
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 free	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 free	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 free	amod
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 danced	obl
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	aux
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past		yet	of bear's own free; dance property	tree rules

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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