The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 101

It seems as though you were to stick to your needle.

Who acts: It, you · What happens: seem, stick

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you), 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 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 seems	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 stick	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stick	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stick	mark
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seems	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 needle	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 needle	nmod:poss
11	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stick	past	you					to your needle	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to needle=Co-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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