Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 149

[323] Literally, "Seemed to her as small as a lamb."

What happens: seem · To what, where: explanation

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 323	punct
2	323	323	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 323	punct
4	Literally	literally	ADV	_	2 323	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Seemed	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Seemed	punct
7	Seemed	seem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 323	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Seemed	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 small	advmod
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Seemed	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 lamb	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lamb	det
14	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 small	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 323	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 323	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	participle			explanation			small property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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