The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 20

Never had the house been kept so clean, the meats so well served, nor the sick cats so well cared for.

What happens: not have, keep, serve, care · To what, where: meats, house, sick cats

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:pass
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 kept	aux:pass
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 clean	advmod
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meats	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meats	det
11	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 served	advmod
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cared	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 cared	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cats	det
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cats	amod
19	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cared	nsubj:pass
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 cared	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 cared	advmod
22	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	22 cared	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past	the meats		tree rules
2	keep	participle · passive	the house	clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	serve	participle		well property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	care	participle · passive	the sick cats	well property	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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