Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 24

Such a child has never been seen before!"

What happens: not see · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 child	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 seen	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 seen	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect · passive		such child					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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