The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 40

It was much more splendid than the other, but here too there was not a human being to be seen.

Who acts: little · What happens: be, not see

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 splendid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 splendid	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 splendid	advmod
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 other	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 splendid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seen	cc
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 was	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	14 was	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seen	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 seen	det
17	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seen	advcl
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 seen	aux:pass
19	to	to	PART	_	21 seen	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 seen	aux:pass
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 splendid	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 splendid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	little					than the other; splendid property	tree rules
2	not see	past · passive							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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