The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 94

It sounded as if it would be a very hard thing to get them away from the building of which they formed a part, but all had gone well with her so far, and at any rate she could but try.

Who acts: It, Arch, things, all · What happens: sound, be, get away, form, go, try · To what, where: things, building, part

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 (It, Arch, things, all), 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 sounded	nsubj
2	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	11 thing	case
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 thing	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thing	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounded	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sounded	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 building	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 building	det
18	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 formed	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 formed	nsubj
22	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 building	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 part	det
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 formed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gone	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 gone	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 gone	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	aux
29	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sounded	parataxis
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 gone	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gone	obl
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 gone	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 could	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 could	cc
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 rate	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 rate	det
39	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 could	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 could	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 sounded	advcl
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 try	cc
43	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 could	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	It				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a condition, not said to happen	would	Arch			as a hard thing	tree rules
3	get away	to-infinitive		things = thing	the building	away property	tree rules
4	form	past	things = thing	a part		of the building	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme
5	go	past · perfect	all			with girl; far, well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
6	try	infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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