The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 95

It seemed a likely place to find them, or, at any rate, they might hear something of them, and they walked quickly on, cheered by the thought that they were doing something.

Who acts: It, woman · What happens: seem, find, hear, walk, cheer, do · To what, where: likely place, woman, something, rate

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, woman), 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 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 hear	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 or	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 rate	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 rate	det
14	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rate	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 hear	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 something	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walked	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 walked	nsubj
25	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	27 on	advmod
27	on	on	ADV	_	25 walked	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cheered	punct
29	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 walked	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 thought	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thought	det
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cheered	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 doing	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 doing	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 doing	aux
36	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 thought	acl
37	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 doing	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It	a likely place			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute
2	find	to-infinitive		woman			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	hear	might	woman	something	any rate		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	walk	past	woman				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cheer	participle	woman not said here			by the thought	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	past · progressive	woman	something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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