The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 4

Never, never before, did I have such a wearisome task!

Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: wearisome task

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 before	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 before	advmod
4	before	before	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 before	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 task	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 task	det
11	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 task	amod
12	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	I	such wearisome task				before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient

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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