The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 26
There was nothing but snow far and near, and not a green blade of grass to be seen anywhere.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, see
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 | 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 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 snow | cc |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 was | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 near | cc |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 far | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blade | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blade | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 blade | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blade | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blade | amod |
| 14 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blade | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blade | advcl |
| 20 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 seen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | anywhere property | 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 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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