How to draw a syntax tree

I believe many linguistics, non-linguistic students has chances to see such thing appear on the book to see the syntax, papers.

It is possible that your first question is "What the hack this that?" and the second question is "How can I draw this thing?"

For starters: phpSyntaxTree

In fact, there are a lot of online websites that can generate syntax trees. I am going to introduce a simple and practical software here: phpSyntaxTree. This software can be used directly on the website. You do not need to download it. And what's important is that it wass developed by a small software company called ironcreek, and it's completely free!

Website: http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/

The specific use of method is also very simple: you just use parentheses [] to draw all the nodes, for example: [S [NP phpSyntaxTree] [VP [V creates] [NP nice syntax trees]]]

and you will get:

Of course, you can also edit the color and font for your trees.

phpSyntaxTree is a very simple and easy-to-use software that caters to the simple needs of everyone's writing essays.

However, phpSyntaxTree also has some drawbacks, for example, you cannot express the tree structure at will and it is not able to express the structure's movement and some other special structures. In order to achieve these functions, we need a more advanced software. I gonna introduce it in my next blog.