The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 17
“You seem to be looking for something,” said he.
Who acts: You, king · What happens: seem, look, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seem | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | You not said here | for something | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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