The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 10
Never has there been a gayer Court.
What happens: not have, be · To what, where: gayer Court
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. 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 | 2 has | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 has | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Court | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Court | det |
| 6 | gayer | gay | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 Court | amod |
| 7 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | parataxis |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a gayer Court | tree rules |
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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