The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 87

And the Northern Lights still seemed some way off.

Who acts: Northern Lights · What happens: seem

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northern Lights), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 seemed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lights	det
3	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lights	amod
4	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 seemed	advmod
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 off	obl:unmarked
9	off	off	ADV	_	6 seemed	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Northern Lights				still	off 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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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