The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 15

But the silence of death reigned everywhere, and no living thing, not even a fly, was to be seen.

What happens: reign, see, silence · To what, where: silence, living thing, death

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. 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	_	6 reigned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 silence	det
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silence	nmod
6	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 reigned	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 thing	det
11	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seen	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fly	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 fly	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fly	det
17	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux:pass
20	to	to	PART	_	22 seen	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reigned	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reign	participle · passive	the silence of death	everywhere property	tree rules
2	see	past · passive	no living thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	silence		death		nom silence «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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