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title: Never, since the world has been a world, had such a thing been made,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 57

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:2:57
# text = 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.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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