The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 38

There was no door anywhere, nor any window.

Who acts: door · What happens: be · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 was	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 window	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 window	cc
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no door	any window		there		anywhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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