The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 93
Never was such a tree seen before.
What happens: not be, see · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. 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 | 5 tree | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | cop |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 tree | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tree | acl |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 seen | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | such tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | participle | such tree not said here | 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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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