The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 106
Neither the yacht nor the island was in sight!
Who acts: yacht · What happens: be · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yacht), 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 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 sight | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 yacht | det |
| 3 | yacht | yacht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 island | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yacht | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sight | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the yacht nor the island | sight | 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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