Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 15
It may all have been a dream, and yet to the king it seemed very real indeed.
Who acts: book, king · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: dream
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 dream | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dream | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 dream | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 king | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | acl:relcl |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 real | advmod |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may · perfect | book | a dream | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the king | a dream not said here | indeed, real property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dream=Attribute |
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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