Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 26

The like of the robes she had we have never seen on woman before.

Who acts: robes, we · What happens: have, not see

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robes, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robes	det
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 robes	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 robes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robes	det
5	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 seen	advmod
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 had	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 woman	case
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
14	before	before	ADV	_	11 seen	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the robes						tree rules
2	not see	present · perfect	we					on woman; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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