The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 57

Never, since the world has been a world, had such a thing been made, and the King was quite amazed when it was presented to him.

Who acts: world, King · What happens: be, not have, make, present · To what, where: world, thing, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (world, King), 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	11 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 world	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 world	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 world	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 world	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 world	punct
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 thing	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 made	aux:pass
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thing	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 amazed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 amazed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 amazed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 amazed	cop
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 amazed	advmod
23	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 presented	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 presented	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 presented	aux:pass
27	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 amazed	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 presented	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	the world	a world			tree rules
2	not have	past		such thing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	make	participle · passive		such thing not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	is	past	the King			amazed property	tree rules
5	present	past · passive		world	King		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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