English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 26

“Stars o' mine!” said the king, “I never heard tell of any one that could do that.”

Who acts: Stars, one · What happens: say, not hear, do · To what, where: king, tell, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stars, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stars	punct
2	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 mine	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 mine	punct
5	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Stars	nmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stars	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stars	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 heard	advmod
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 do	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 one	acl:relcl
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 do	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Stars of mine	the king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
2	not hear in a quote	past	Stars of mine = star	tell of any one	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	could	any one	any one	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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