The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 3
The young man gasped, and seemed as if he was unable to speak.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: gasp, seem, be, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (young man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gasped | nsubj |
| 4 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seemed | cc |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gasped | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 unable | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 unable | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unable | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unable | cop |
| 12 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unable | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | the young man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | the young man not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | man | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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