Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 23

But he did not seem to be so happy this time.

Who acts: Hood · What happens: not seem, be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hood), 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	_	5 seem	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seem	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seem	advmod
5	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 happy	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 happy	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 happy	advmod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	xcomp
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happy	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	Hood						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Hood not said here				time	happy property	tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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