The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 83

In a moment not a tail or a whisker was to be seen.

What happens: see

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tail	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 whisker	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 whisker	det
9	whisker	whisker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 seen	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive					moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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