The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 48
Never had they seen such a splendid palace, nor such a high feast!
Who acts: wheels · What happens: not see · To what, where: splendid palace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheels), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 palace | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feast | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 feast | cc |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 feast | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feast | amod |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | wheels = wheel | such splendid palace | such high feast obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=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 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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