Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 97

The man brushed so close to the little plant, that it seemed as though he would crush it.

Who acts: man, it · What happens: brush, seem, crush · To what, where: plant

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brushed	nsubj
3	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brushed	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 plant	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plant	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plant	amod
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brushed	parataxis
14	as	as	ADV	_	13 seemed	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 crush	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crush	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 crush	aux
18	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crush	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brush	past	the man		close property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	crush	would	man	plant		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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