The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 28
But neither stream nor fish was to be seen; nothing but a rose bush.
What happens: see · To what, where: stream
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 seen | cc |
| 2 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 stream | det |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 fish | cc |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stream | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bush | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 14 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bush | compound |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | neither stream nor fish | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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