The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 7
There was nothing then to be seen but parties of pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth, and feasting.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, see · To what, where: feasting
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 seen | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | advcl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 parties | cc |
| 9 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pleasure | case |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parties | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hunting | punct |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleasure | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fishing | punct |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleasure | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dancing | punct |
| 17 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fishing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mirth | punct |
| 19 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fishing | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feasting | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feasting | cc |
| 22 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | feasting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | then | 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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