The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 53

Nothing could have been more splendid than the ambassador’s attire.

Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 splendid	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 splendid	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 splendid	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 splendid	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 splendid	advmod
6	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	11 attire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ambassador	det
9	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attire	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 ambassador	case
11	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 splendid	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 splendid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · perfect	Nothing					than the ambassador's attire; splendid property	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 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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