I use the following code to produce this figure:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{forest}
\forestset{
sn edges/.style={for tree={parent anchor=south, child anchor=north,base=top},
where n children=0{tier=word}{}
}}
% auxiliary nodes without node label
\forestset{
empty nodes/.style={
delay={where content={}{shape=coordinate,for parent={for children={anchor=north}}}{}}}
}
\begin{document}
\begin{forest}
sn edges, empty nodes
[{}
[{} [{} [Mummy]]
[{} [must]]
[{} [leave]]]
[{} [now]]]
\end{forest}
\end{document}
This works nicely for forest 1.0 (e.g. texlive 2013) but I cannot get it to work for forest 2.0.
This is what I tried:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{forest}
\useforestlibrary{linguistics}
\forestapplylibrarydefaults{linguistics}
\forestset{
sn edges/.style={for tree={parent anchor=south, child anchor=north,base=top},
where n children=0{tier=word}{}
}}
\begin{document}
\begin{forest}
sn edges
[{}, nice empty nodes
[{} [{} [Mummy]]
[{} [must]]
[{} [leave]]]
[{} [now]]]
\end{forest}
\end{document}
