The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 37

It seemed to him that he must be the son of some unknown monarch, and at last he determined to set out at once and travel in search of his proper rank.

Who acts: It, Prince · What happens: seem, be, determine, set out, travel, search · To what, where: Prince, son, last, search, proper rank

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Prince), 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	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 son	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 son	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 son	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 monarch	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 monarch	det
13	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monarch	amod
14	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 determined	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 determined	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 determined	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 determined	nsubj
20	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 set	mark
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 determined	xcomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 set	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 set	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 travel	cc
27	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 set	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 search	case
29	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 travel	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 rank	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 rank	nmod:poss
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rank	amod
33	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 search	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		Prince			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	must	Prince	the son			of some unknown monarch	tree rules
3	determine	past	Prince			last		vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set out	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	travel	infinitive	Prince not said here			search of Prince's proper rank		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory
6	search			Prince's proper rank				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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