The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 78

The wall must have appeared miles high in comparison with her own body; yet, in less time than would have seemed possible, she was over the top and down in the courtyard on the other side.

Who acts: less time, shape · What happens: appear, have, seem, be · To what, where: wall, comparison, top

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (less time, shape), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 appeared	aux
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 high	obl:unmarked
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 appeared	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 comparison	case
9	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 body	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comparison	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 yet	punct
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 appeared	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 time	acl
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 have	ccomp
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seemed	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 top	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 top	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 top	cop
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 down	cc
32	down	down	ADV	_	30 top	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 courtyard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 courtyard	det
35	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 top	nmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 side	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 side	amod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 courtyard	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	must · perfect · passive		the wall	comparison with shape's own body	yet; time	high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	would	less time not said here					tree rules
3	seem	past	less time not said here				possible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	shape		the top		in the courtyard on the other side	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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