Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 25

Did you never hear tell of the Danes?"

Who acts: you · What happens: not hear · To what, where: tell

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Danes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Danes	det
8	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	you	tell of the Danes					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=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: «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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