The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 6
But nothing was there except the kettle, which seemed quiet enough.
Who acts: nothing, kettle · What happens: be, seem
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, kettle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 kettle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kettle | det |
| 7 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kettle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 quiet | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nothing | except the kettle; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the kettle | quiet property | 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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