The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 77
You seem very serious about something.'
Who acts: You · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 serious | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 serious | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 serious | advmod |
| 4 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 serious | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 serious | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 serious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | about something; serious property | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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