The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 47
As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send the seventh Simon?
Who acts: it · What happens: seem, not take, reach, not send · To what, where: matter, island, seventh Simon
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 seems | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | obj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 take | advmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 take | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 send | advmod |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 send | advmod |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 island | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Simon | det |
| 17 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Simon | amod |
| 18 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | it | matter | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not take | future | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | the island | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not send | infinitive | the seventh Simon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=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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