The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 43

It seemed odd to the king that he had been so long in the grave.

Who acts: It, King · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: grave

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, King), 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	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 long	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 long	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 long	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 grave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grave	det
15	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It					to the king; odd property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	King			the grave		long 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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