The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 121
Such a splendid embassy had never before been seen in any country.
What happens: not see · To what, where: splendid embassy, country
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 embassy | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 embassy | det |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 embassy | amod |
| 4 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 seen | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect · passive | such splendid embassy | any country | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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