The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 3
Neither scrivener nor attorney was sent for.
What happens: send · To what, where: scrivener
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 scrivener | det |
| 2 | scrivener | scrivener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 attorney | cc |
| 4 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scrivener | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sent | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | neither scrivener nor attorney | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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