The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 41
Not even a servant was to be seen; there was no sign of life in the palace!
Who acts: sign · What happens: see, be, sign · To what, where: servant, life, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (sign), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 servant | advmod |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 servant | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 sign | det |
| 13 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sign | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sign | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no sign of life in the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sign | life | the palace | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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