The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 87

Neither was the old grandmother anywhere to be seen.

Who acts: Neither · What happens: be, see · To what, where: old grandmother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (Neither), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 grandmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grandmother	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grandmother	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 grandmother	advmod
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	5 grandmother	acl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grandmother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Neither	the old grandmother				anywhere property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive · 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 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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