The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 28

All the skill and cunning he had shown before was of no use to him now, and after thinking about the scythes for many hours, there seemed only one way open to him.

What happens: show, be, think, seem · To what, where: skill, heart, one way

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 skill	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skill	det
3	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shown	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cunning	cc
5	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skill	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shown	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shown	aux
8	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	13 use	case
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 use	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 use	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shown	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	nmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shown	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 thinking	mark
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seemed	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 scythes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 scythes	det
23	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thinking	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 hours	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hours	amod
26	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thinking	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 seemed	expl
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shown	conj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 one	advmod
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 way	nummod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	xcomp
33	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 way	amod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 open	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past · perfect · passive	all skill and cunning			now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past		heart		before no use		tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund				hour	about the scythes	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about scythe=Topic
4	seem	past	one way		there			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 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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