The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 71

It seemed to be a man with shaggy hair, and a long beard which hung down to his knees.

Who acts: It, long beard · What happens: seem, be, hang down · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, long beard), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 man	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hung	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hung	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beard	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beard	amod
14	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	nsubj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 hung	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 knees	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 knees	nmod:poss
20	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hung	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a man	with shaggy hair	tree rules
3	hang down	past	a long beard		to beard's knees; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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