The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 90

Never was a bride seen in such a dismal plight.

What happens: not be, see · To what, where: bride, dismal plight

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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	4 bride	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bride	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bride	det
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bride	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 plight	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 plight	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plight	det
9	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plight	amod
10	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		a bride					tree rules
2	see	participle		a bride not said here		such dismal plight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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